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Joseph Fenn
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Thu Oct 27, 2005 1:26 am Post subject:
anyone heard of "virtual pc" software??? |
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I was told by a local pro-shop they have to use software called
"virtual PC" in order to work on the ntfs systems if they want to
mix partitions and yet retain "winxp/pro" on a primary partition.
I've never heard ot this software, has any one else heard of it??
Kokomo JOe
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Jerry Bloomfield
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Thu Oct 27, 2005 1:54 am Post subject:
Re: anyone heard of "virtual pc" software??? |
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On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:26:07 -1000, Joseph Fenn <jfenn@lava.net>
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| Quote: | I was told by a local pro-shop they have to use software called
"virtual PC" in order to work on the ntfs systems if they want to
mix partitions and yet retain "winxp/pro" on a primary partition.
I've never heard ot this software, has any one else heard of it??
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Yeah, it has been out for a while. It used to be owned by Connectix,
but MS bought it a couple years ago. It is much like VMWare, except
the host can only be Windows.
I have issues running it on my IBM ThinkPad. When I use it my system
will hang when I try to suspend. VMWare doesn't have this issue, but
it does have its own issues. |
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J. Clarke
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Thu Oct 27, 2005 2:24 am Post subject:
Re: anyone heard of "virtual pc" software??? |
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Joseph Fenn wrote:
| Quote: | I was told by a local pro-shop they have to use software called
"virtual PC" in order to work on the ntfs systems if they want to
mix partitions and yet retain "winxp/pro" on a primary partition.
I've never heard ot this software, has any one else heard of it??
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I'm not quite sure why they would need it for that purpose, given that NTFS
is the native partition type of all versions of XP, but it's a Microsoft
product, <http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx>.
| Quote: | Kokomo JOe
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Barry Watzman
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Thu Oct 27, 2005 2:34 am Post subject:
Re: anyone heard of "virtual pc" software??? |
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It's a Microsoft product.
Joseph Fenn wrote:
| Quote: | I was told by a local pro-shop they have to use software called
"virtual PC" in order to work on the ntfs systems if they want to
mix partitions and yet retain "winxp/pro" on a primary partition.
I've never heard ot this software, has any one else heard of it??
Kokomo JOe
**********************************************************
* Ham KH6JF AARS/MARS ABM6JF QCWA WW2 VET WD RADIO SYSTEM*
* Army MARS PRECEDED by AARS (Army Amateur Radio System) * * Hi
State ARMY MARS COORDINATOR *
**********************************************************
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William P.N. Smith
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Thu Oct 27, 2005 6:05 am Post subject:
Re: anyone heard of "virtual pc" software??? |
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Joseph Fenn <jfenn@lava.net> wrote:
| Quote: | I was told by a local pro-shop they have to use software called
"virtual PC" in order to work on the ntfs systems if they want to
mix partitions and yet retain "winxp/pro" on a primary partition.
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Well, there's http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
but there are a bunch of other folks making virtual pc style products,
especially for emulating PC software on Mac platforms and such.
I can't really parse your original query, maybe you could try again? |
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Al Dykes
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Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:00 am Post subject:
Re: anyone heard of "virtual pc" software??? |
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In article <djoshd0mvl@news1.newsguy.com>,
J. Clarke <jclarke.usenet@snet.net.invalid> wrote:
| Quote: | Joseph Fenn wrote:
I was told by a local pro-shop they have to use software called
"virtual PC" in order to work on the ntfs systems if they want to
mix partitions and yet retain "winxp/pro" on a primary partition.
I've never heard ot this software, has any one else heard of it??
I'm not quite sure why they would need it for that purpose, given that NTFS
is the native partition type of all versions of XP, but it's a Microsoft
product, <http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx>.
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If you have an NTFS file system and need to run a W98 (or DOS or
Linux) application that needed to access that data, running
VMware/VirtualPC would make sense.
You could export the file system as a share and mount it from within
the virtual machine.
(I can think of a bunch of questions about how this would
work for filesystems that exceeded W/98's specs.)
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Joseph Fenn
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Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:26 am Post subject:
Re: anyone heard of "virtual pc" software??? |
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On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Al Dykes wrote:
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You could export the file system as a share and mount it from within
the virtual machine.
(I can think of a bunch of questions about how this would
work for filesystems that exceeded W/98's specs.)
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a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m
Don't blame me. I voted for Gore.
Right on. Yes thats exactly why they have to use it. I wanna keep |
winxp/pro as it is but partition the HD into 3 partitions without
damageing xp. So they are doing it for me and I will have
P1 winxp/pro P2 Win95 oem P3 DOD. Sounds stupid dont it.
I like the older stuff better than the new xp stuff except the
muisic and dealing with music files on xp/pro might be easier to
do.
Joe |
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J. Clarke
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Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:26 am Post subject:
Re: anyone heard of "virtual pc" software??? |
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William P.N. Smith wrote:
| Quote: | Joseph Fenn <jfenn@lava.net> wrote:
I was told by a local pro-shop they have to use software called
"virtual PC" in order to work on the ntfs systems if they want to
mix partitions and yet retain "winxp/pro" on a primary partition.
Well, there's http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
but there are a bunch of other folks making virtual pc style products,
especially for emulating PC software on Mac platforms and such.
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Hardly "a bunch of other folks". The commercial products are VirtualPC and
vmWare. Virtual PC runs on Windows and Mac, vwWare runs on Windows and
Linux. The only others that have any kind of track record are Bochs, which
is a full soft emulator and involves a substantial performance hit, and
wine, which allows a few Windows applications to run on Intel hardware
under Linux.
| Quote: | I can't really parse your original query, maybe you could try again?
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J. Clarke
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Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:26 am Post subject:
Re: anyone heard of "virtual pc" software??? |
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Joseph Fenn wrote:
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On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Al Dykes wrote:
You could export the file system as a share and mount it from within
the virtual machine.
(I can think of a bunch of questions about how this would
work for filesystems that exceeded W/98's specs.)
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a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m
Don't blame me. I voted for Gore.
Right on. Yes thats exactly why they have to use it. I wanna keep
winxp/pro as it is but partition the HD into 3 partitions without
damageing xp. So they are doing it for me and I will have
P1 winxp/pro P2 Win95 oem P3 DOD. Sounds stupid dont it.
I like the older stuff better than the new xp stuff except the
muisic and dealing with music files on xp/pro might be easier to
do.
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You don't need to partition the disk for Virtual PC. You _can_ but there's
no real point to it.
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--John
to email, dial "usenet" and validate
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