Virtual machines a solution to XP/Vista?

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P Tew

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Posted: 4th Aug 2007 10:25

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Hi, my Dad who is a computer whiz told me about virtual machines. He said that it is where you set up a virtual machine system with your computer and it sounds a lot like dual booting. Is it? And would it be a solution to this problem that this board is about because I read on wiki that virtual machines over comes some of the problems of dual booting? Thanks!

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Mickm

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Posted: 6th Aug 2007 17:38

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If you want to use a virtual machine, specially Vista. You will need not only a lot of memory, but some good processing power because you are running two operating systems at the same time.

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Squelchy Tom

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yes it will work but expect lag :/ you would need a good processor, i suggest a dual core as you will be running xp and vista and atleast 1.5/2G ram :/ i heard somewhere that it dosent have to be running 50/50, it could be like 80% vista and 20% xp. Someone planned on doing that so they could run fpsc and fpscx10

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mrniceguy

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I don't think it will work. Most of the virtual machines uses a emulated standard VGA adapter and DirectX isn't fully supported.

Have done several tests with FPSC games in VMware but without luck.

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SpyDaniel

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Yes, I was going to mention VMware. The only thing with using a virtual machine, is that your system will lag, if you don't have a powerful processor and enough RAM.

We messed around with VMware in college, we had to install an OS using it, then set up a network and so on. It was a nooby course, which I flew through, but I needed the certificate, so I had to do it.

Anyway, you would be better off dual booting with vista, instead of using a virtual machine.

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FastBurst

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Posted: 27th Aug 2007 17:18

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You will not be able to Run ANY FPSC Games in virtual Machines. Due to Basic VGA Driver as an emulators, You can't install DirectX which is required to run the games.

You can run FPSCreator however, unless you have a powerful machines your best bet is to not to. Lag and everything else will be the downside.

Just my thoughts as I am a Microsoft MVIP and Master MSDN holder. Even Microsoft's Virtual PC dooesn't support it and you think they would being they use DirectX.