Virtual PC for Mac?
 

Anyone running Virtual PC for Mac, any glitches and is it an easy install or download. Just curious if anyone can offer any advice.

I assume you have a pre-Intel Mac right? Otherwise, the Intel Mac have tons of options like VMWare Fusion or Parallels.

I have 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, just got the Macbook Pro about 3 months ago.

You can run xp directly using parallels or bootcamp.

Virtual PC is probably the worst of the options.

It's an emulator, not a virtual machine.

There is a profound diff between the two.

I run the other 3 options depending on what I want to do.

Foe regular Windows use, Parrallels, for intense apps, Boot Camp, if i need to eval some code I'll usually use a prebuilt VM config.

I'm starting to understand this, thanks everyone for the direction.

Virtual PC was only a stop gap measure for me.

Ended up using a PC at work to the things necessary due to the VPC being pretty poor.

VMWare seems to be coming out on top over Parrallels.


I'll be moving to VM or Parrallels in a few weeks.

Yeah, the Parralels updates constantly breaking the Library Tools is pissing me off.

VM has a ton of pre built appliances available for download.

Needed to eval an application running on a Linux variant that I don't have installed anywhere, plus would have needed the LAMP stack. Would have wasted the better part of the day.

Downloaded the appropriate appliance and was testing in 30 minutes.

Cool stuff.

Not trying to steal this thread or start an argument but why would you want to buy a Mac and then run windows. I have a Windows machine as well but mostly just use my Macbook. I'm definitely not a computer wizz just want to know if there is some advantage of using a Mac to run Windows and not just using OS X. Or for that matter using a Mac to run Windows and not just a PC that came with windows.

PC 1 Mac 0

Because some of us are in development related businesses.

Virtual Machines are the best way to evaluate code in different configurations on one machine.

If you are working on a bit of code that is platform independent you still need to test it in target environments.

Take something as simple as a web browser, they will all handle the same bit of code slightly differently, IE being the least standards compliant.

I tend to work in 3-5 different locations on a regular basis.

All I need is my MacBook and I can replicate any environment necc whether I'm at home, the office on a plane 30k ft in the air etc...

My other choices would be to lug along a Windows PC or not get work done at all.

The advantage is that with a Mac you get multiple computers for the price of one, for the instances that you need Windows or Linux you don't need to go to another machine. I can and have run concurrently on one Macbook, OS X, XP, Vista and Red Hat. 4 operating systems at the same time.

All your files, OS X and Windows and Linux if you want are all in the same place, no need to keep things synced up.

Since i started this BS session I guess I'll answer that question. I have two Apple Mac Books and like both(old 12" and new15" Macbook Pro), never go back to PC but since it was a capability I thought I would try to understand what was required. I'll leave it at that. It was just curiosity. Excuse me for asking the ******* question!

There now you can shlt all over each other on the subject of which is better.

Oh ok that makes since. Thanks for the response. Chris.

"Since i started this BS session I guess I'll answer that question. I have two Apple Mac Books and like both(old 12" and new15" Macbook Pro), never go back to PC but since it was a capability I thought I would try to understand what was required. I'll leave it at that. It was just curiosity. Excuse me for asking the ******* question!

There now you can shlt all over each other on the subject of which is better."

I was just curious myself. This is why I have been a member since 2004 and only have 143 posts. I will keep to myself.