Re: Install Errors
From: Steve Jain (essjae-No_at_Spam-hotmail.com)
Date: 01/10/05
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:18:35 -0800
On 10 Jan 2005 07:20:21 -0800, "surfkurf" <surfkurf@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Hi Steve,
>
>I did install v5 and then V7 upgrade. It works, but the performace is
>terrible. I have a maxed out top of the line G5 iMAC. I think v5 runs
>better on my 2 G4 Powerbooks. Seems to me that anything Microsux
>touches is distroyed. They don't ever forward hits to Connectix.com
>to Microsoft. I think MS butchered this.
Microsoft didn't buy Connectix, so why would they forward to
Microsoft? Connectix sold VPC and Virtual Server to MS, not the
company.
The same engineers that worked at Connectix now work at MS. Guess
what, there were configuration issues, performance issues with VPC
when Connectix owned it too.
Sounds like your VPC on your Macin-trash is misconfigured.
>
>How can you install the v7 upgrade without the original v5 full
>version?
You install the upgrade, then copy the Windows disk image from VPC 5
over.
>If I now purchase a full version of v7 and install from
>scratch, can I expect better performance?
Possibly, since the correct VPC7 additions would be installed.
>It's painfully slow and
>nothing really works too well on it. In fact, most games or anything
>involving graphics or sounds is a waste of time.
VPC isn't designed as a gaming solution, its emulation. ALL the
hardware is emulated via software, so its not going to run as fast as
anything that has native hardware, and specific hardware for video,
sound, disk controllers, etc. Jobs over-hyped G5 needs to handle it
all, without the benefit of the G4's little endian support.
G4's have special instructions in the chip that VPC could utilize and
allowed it to run faster. G5's don't have it, so its one more chunk
of software code that needs to be processed.
> If you can't use a v7
>upgrade on a new machine, I think this should have been advertised as
>such. If v7 was marketed for the G5 and you can't use the upgrade, why
>even offer to sell the upgrade?
>
Well, there've been other posters here who've successfully upgraded
with the VPC7 upgrade and posted information about it.
Steve Jain, Virtual PC for Windows MVP
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