Re: FN-FORUM Virtual PC

date posted 1st March 2002 06:06

Carl W Crawley [EMAIL REMOVED] writes
>Hi All,
>
>I'm just in the process of installing freeBSD as an Image on Virtual PC -
>and wondered whether it's possible to run a Mac OS on Virtual PC?
>
>If so, I'd be interested to hear from people who have and how they find it?
>
>Has anyone use Virtual PC on a PC? What do you think of it?

I've run various different PC operating systems on a PC in virtual
machines, mostly using VMWare (www.vmware.com). This includes running
Linux on Windows NT, Win95/NT/2000 on Linux and NT, and FreeBSD on
Linux. All work really well, as long as you have enough RAM to spare.
Generally I've found that running the emulator on Linux works better
than on any version of Windows, regardless of the "guest" OS.

>I installed Virtual PC for the Mac on one this afternoon - with Windows 98
>and it looks very impressive.

The December 2001 issue of Linux Format magazine (issue 22,
www.linuxformat.com) includes a feature about the various Apple Mac
emulators available for Linux running on the PC. Might be worth a look!

Neil
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