Virtual PC

[DJ1UK]

Hi All,

Just wanting to know if I buy a eMac and put virtual PC on it, will it be able to run Visual Studio.net and Microsoft Visio ?

Thanks

DJ

 

[edesignuk]

It will run, but it will run like ****, just like evrything else running under VPC. You're FAR better off getting a cheap PC off eBay and then using Microsofts Remote Desktop Client for Mac to connect to it. Seriously, even a cheapo Celeron box will be much faster than VPC.

 

[840quadra]

or if you are like me and don't want anything M$ on your Macintosh you can install RDesktop an open source RDP client that works in X11.

I REALLY wished the people at VMWare got their act together and proveded a good port for OSX. VMWare blows VirtualPC out of the water, and has been around longer then the VirtualPC software that Microsoft bought from an other company.

Daryll VMware employee Hot Shot

Posts: 1,399
From: Palo Alto, CA

Re: mac os x as host operating system
Posted: Nov 21, 2003 11:44 AM

Hey there,

This is not something on our product roadmap for any of our products at this point.

I don't see a likelihood in this position changing, unless the Mac changes it's position in the market dramatically in the next couple of years. We've been on the x86 side of things since inception, and I've never seen so much as a ripple in that philosophy.

-Daryll t

I wonder what his thoughts are now that it is 2005 ??

I loved that company, and still do, they are stupid to ignore the Macintosh platform (well i n my mind) Especially considering OS X is unix based. I know they will have to do extensive work and testing to make it work on the PowerPC core systems, but I think lots of us would look at VMWare as opposed to a Microsoft solution.

maybe not though...

 

[topgunn]

VMWare wouldn't be the answer because you would still come back to the fundamental problem of emulating x86 on PowerPC. Windows emulation is the easy part.