12-15-2014, 05:28 PM
Hi,
Finally gave up on MS Virtual PC for anything other than various Windows.
MS have done a good job at fowling up their package, to make it as difficult as possible to use with third party OS's. Not even giving their virtual display a name ie. blank, shows this was quite deliberate. Which doesn't inspire confidence in using their other products. It seems to be the same old story that I've seen before, where the engineers do a good job, but the high level policy makers screw up, by making an ill considered decision, forcing the engineers to cripple their work. They did a similar thing with their floppy disk drive support, the function is actually there, but they removed the graphical interface.
Anyway, also tried VirtualBox, spent a couple of days with it, but finally put that aside too. It seems that it's gone pair shaped at the moment, if you happen to be using Windows 7 with SP1. Something they did after version 4.3.12 and which they are still trying to resolve with 4.3.20. I nearly achieved an installation when I tried 4.3.12 but still had problems. It's a shame because it does look like a very good, well designed package, but needs sorting out.
So, I eventually moved on again, to VMware Player. I installed it and it worked, like a breath of fresh air. Still have a couple of grumbles with printing and sound to sort out, but their VMware Tools, which I had to install manually, allows pick and dropping of files between Windows host and Linux guests, just as good as Virtual PC with Windows.
May do a separate post on it when I sort out the remaining grumbles.
BTW how about a Virtual Machine Corner, as a new subject area.
Finally gave up on MS Virtual PC for anything other than various Windows.
MS have done a good job at fowling up their package, to make it as difficult as possible to use with third party OS's. Not even giving their virtual display a name ie. blank, shows this was quite deliberate. Which doesn't inspire confidence in using their other products. It seems to be the same old story that I've seen before, where the engineers do a good job, but the high level policy makers screw up, by making an ill considered decision, forcing the engineers to cripple their work. They did a similar thing with their floppy disk drive support, the function is actually there, but they removed the graphical interface.
Anyway, also tried VirtualBox, spent a couple of days with it, but finally put that aside too. It seems that it's gone pair shaped at the moment, if you happen to be using Windows 7 with SP1. Something they did after version 4.3.12 and which they are still trying to resolve with 4.3.20. I nearly achieved an installation when I tried 4.3.12 but still had problems. It's a shame because it does look like a very good, well designed package, but needs sorting out.
So, I eventually moved on again, to VMware Player. I installed it and it worked, like a breath of fresh air. Still have a couple of grumbles with printing and sound to sort out, but their VMware Tools, which I had to install manually, allows pick and dropping of files between Windows host and Linux guests, just as good as Virtual PC with Windows.
May do a separate post on it when I sort out the remaining grumbles.
BTW how about a Virtual Machine Corner, as a new subject area.
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