I bought Virtual PC with Windows X Pro (IIRC). Is that of any use with a 
modernMac using Intel chips and Snow Leopard?

I have had little incentive to switch over to Windows on an occasional 
basis. Recently, I was thinking of running something like TurboPascal.

Bill

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Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I bought Virtual PC with Windows X Pro (IIRC). Is that of any use with a 
> modernMac using Intel chips and Snow Leopard?

No.  It's less than useless.  Virtual PC, being a PowerPC app, will run 
in Rosetta, and then run Windows under emulation.  Extremely slow and 
inefficient.  Use Boot Camp from Apple (free) or try Parellels to run 
Windows natively on your Mac.

-- 
K.

Lang may your lum reek.

In article <SalmonEgg-C3329E.10110525012010@news60.forteinc.com>,
Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I bought Virtual PC with Windows X Pro (IIRC). Is that of any use with a 
> modernMac using Intel chips and Snow Leopard?

none whatsoever. it will not work, at all. unless you have a old
powerpc mac, you just wasted your money.

for intel macs, you need vmware or parallels, or dual boot via boot
camp.

In article <zrl7n.61014$Db2.9398@edtnps83>, Kir�ly
<me@home.spamsucks.ca> wrote:

> No.  It's less than useless.  Virtual PC, being a PowerPC app, will run 
> in Rosetta, and then run Windows under emulation.  Extremely slow and 
> inefficient.

actually, it won't run at all.

nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> In article <SalmonEgg-C3329E.10110525012010@news60.forteinc.com>,
> Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > I bought Virtual PC with Windows X Pro (IIRC). Is that of any use with a
> > modernMac using Intel chips and Snow Leopard?
> 
> none whatsoever. it will not work, at all. unless you have a old
> powerpc mac, you just wasted your money.
> 
> for intel macs, you need vmware or parallels, or dual boot via boot
> camp.

Or for free, VirtualBox.

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nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> actually, it won't run at all.

Thanks for the correction!

-- 
K.

Lang may your lum reek.

nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> In article <zrl7n.61014$Db2.9398@edtnps83>, Kir�ly
> <me@home.spamsucks.ca> wrote:
> 
> > No.  It's less than useless.  Virtual PC, being a PowerPC app, will run
> > in Rosetta, and then run Windows under emulation.  Extremely slow and
> > inefficient.
> 
> actually, it won't run at all.

No, but if I recall correctly, with Parallels and Fusion can import the
virtual machine so there's no need to buy a separate copy of Windows.

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In article <SalmonEgg-C3329E.10110525012010@news60.forteinc.com>,
 Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I bought Virtual PC with Windows X Pro (IIRC). Is that of any use with a 
> modernMac using Intel chips and Snow Leopard?

Unless you want to run some OS under Windows that you're running on your 
intel Mac using BootCamp or VirtualBox, etc., probably not.

This isn't the old Virtual PC that would let you run Windows on a PPC 
Mac; MS requirements page says you have to be running Windows 7 as your 
host OS.
 
> I have had little incentive to switch over to Windows on an occasional 
> basis. Recently, I was thinking of running something like TurboPascal.
> 
> Bill

In article <zrl7n.61014$Db2.9398@edtnps83>,
 me@home.spamsucks.ca (Kir�ly) wrote:

> No.  It's less than useless.  Virtual PC, being a PowerPC app, will run 
> in Rosetta, and then run Windows under emulation.  Extremely slow and 
> inefficient.  Use Boot Camp from Apple (free) or try Parellels to run 
> Windows natively on your Mac.

I realize that. I was wondering if the Windows inside Virtual PC disks 
can be used with boot camp or other such applications so I do not have 
to patronize Microsoft as much as they would like me to.

Bill

-- 
An old man would be better off never having been born.

In article <zrl7n.61014$Db2.9398@edtnps83>,
 me@home.spamsucks.ca (Kir�ly) wrote:

> Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > I bought Virtual PC with Windows X Pro (IIRC). Is that of any use with a 
> > modernMac using Intel chips and Snow Leopard?
> 
> No.  It's less than useless.  Virtual PC, being a PowerPC app, will run 
> in Rosetta, and then run Windows under emulation.  Extremely slow and 
> inefficient.  Use Boot Camp from Apple (free) or try Parellels to run 
> Windows natively on your Mac.

MS still supports/sells Virtual PC, but it's not for running Windows on 
non-intel hardware. Virtual PC 2007 claims that it requires Windows 7 as 
the only supported host OS.

In article <SalmonEgg-89D4AC.17142625012010@news60.forteinc.com>,
Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I was wondering if the Windows inside Virtual PC disks 
> can be used with boot camp or other such applications so I do not have 
> to patronize Microsoft as much as they would like me to.

it's an oem license specifically for virtual pc, so technically no.