> -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn- > linux.org] On Behalf Of Chris Schumann > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 1:06 PM > To: Twin Cities Linux User Group > Subject: [TCLUG] Fedora on VirtualPC 2004 > > I got a copy of Microsoft's VirtualPC 2004 yesterday and installed it on a > Windows XP Pro computer at home. It currently only supports Windows 2000 > or later as a host OS now. But if someone can tell me how to get video > editing, DVD burning and HDTV viewing done in Linux, I'm more than happy > to listen! Virtual PC has always been Windows-host only, VMWare will allow Linux as the host OS though. You will probably have problems with getting all your video stuff working. I did some research between these two packages, and the biggest difference I could see was the way VMWare provides video/sound devices versus the way Virtual PC does. I apologize that I can't offer more support than to say best of luck, and check the MS support newsgroups linked off of their Virtual PC homepage. > One strange thing is that installation took a very long time. Like over > two hours long. The CPU was idle most of the time, so I'm chalking this up > to inefficient CD-ROM emulation layers so far. Yes, Virtual PC's emulation isn't extremely efficient; of course, that depends on what you run it on. I think VMWare is better, as it acts more as a pass-through to the hardware, rather than pure emulation. > Another thing new to this person who's never run VM software before was > seeing a new virtual network card, with some made-up MAC address get an IP > address from my DHCP server. So now my machine has two IP addresses. You can normally run a NAT'd network, as well, so your PC only has one external IP, and then you get another virtual adapter with an internal IP & DHCP for your virtual machines. > If anyone has tips on speeding that process, I'd be very grateful. Mirror on your LAN on another box? Or a mirror in a VM :) Are you sure it's the server? > I also installed FreeDOS on another VM, then quickly added Quake for DOS. > It seems to work, except for sound. Sound also does not work in Fedora as > of yet. See my first note. > If there's interest, I'll post more as I do more. I haven't used Virtual PC extensively, but I may be very soon, so I'd be interested to know if you get around these sound/video issues and network speed. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list