> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 13:41:45 -0600 > From: "John T. Hoffoss" <hoff0438 at umn.edu> > > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn- > > linux.org] On Behalf Of Chris Schumann > > 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. I didn't go buy Virtual PC. It came with the Action Pack, which allows consultants such as myself to get a lot of software to learn and try for a year for pretty cheap. Virtual PC was just included last month. > 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. An excellent idea. I'll do that. > > 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. It's actually quite OK. I like being able to have each virtual machine host a service. I'm behind a router so all the addresses are non-routed anyway. (discussion of up2date) > > 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? The very slow up2date also took hours on my ThinkPad on a dual-boot configuration. Local network activity is very fast on both, though. I was looking for a less-loaded mirror, such as mn-linux, real-time or the like. > 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. CPU performance so far seems fine. I'll test more with network once up2date is complete, then on to video for a bit then sound. It's strange but I'm itching to play an old DOS game (Full Throttle). _______________________________________________ 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