On Mar 16, 4:25 am, Kier <val...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:54:52 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:
> > Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> >> [But they are going to bundle it with the O/S, so who needs better
> >> quality...]
>
> >> Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 lags behind competition
>
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> >>| Microsoft released its Virtual PC (VPC) 2007 virtualization software
> >>| as freeware recently, and you definitely get what you pay for. VPC
> >>| 2007 isn't Open Source, nor does it run on Linux. Linux isn't even
> >>| mentioned as supported guest operating system, but since people
> >>| have successfully run several Linux distributions through earlier
> >>| versions of VPC, I decided to give it a go. After several hours
> >>| of struggle, I found out why VPC 2007 doesn't claim to support
> >>| Linux distros.
> >> `----
>
> >>http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/10/0953255&from=rss
>
> > Cue Hovsepian/Novell to explain why this is really good for a customer...
>
> The article has some of positive things to say, along with the negative.
> The bugbears are very slow installation of Linux OSen (Live CDs worked
> well), and the lack of support for USB key storage devices, an obvious
> drawback when saving one's work, drag and drop between guest and host OS
> not being possible.
>
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Actually, it is slow installing any OS. Once installed, everything is
fine - but even windows nt took a couple of hours to install. I don't
usually drag and drop between OS's, but it does work smother with the
mouse and keyboard capture when running a windows os. Usually I just
use a shared folder on the host OS and access it using samba on
linux. Oh, and PCLinux OS doesn't work on VPC either (found out last
night - just for kicks) - it has the same problem as Ubuntu.
The major problem with VPC is is the lack of USB support. That's the
real show stopper for me. It's fine with Windows NT4 - the OS dosen't
support USB anyway, but it sucks for anything modern :) To be honest
the only advantage that VPC has over vmplayer is that you can actually
create and configure the vm images. To use vmplayer, I have to jump
through a couple of hoops to get a working vm :)
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Tom Shelton
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