Re: Exactly what breaks in VPC with Tiger?

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dmartlaz,

Could you please calm down?! Sheez!

Have you ever thought as to why Apple decided to engineer Tiger's
kernel in the way they did? I'm sure it's not to break things on purpose,
and I am absolutely sure that the decision was not taken lightly!

This posting won't solve your problem, but I will suggest one thing:
use Panther if you need Virtual PC to be fully functional. You can also
run Tiger if you need to at the time you need it by making your system
have two volumes... either add another disk or partition the existing one.
Then you can dual-boot your Mac and use the OS you need at the time
you need it. And if you are crafty enough, you can integrate the two
systems so that they can share resources to reduce the space required to
hold both operating systems on your disks.

Othewise, you're just thumping your head needlessly against a brick wall.

A documented reason for Apple's kernel changes have to do with the
introduction
of a formal KPI (or kernel programming interface). The KPI has required
that many existing structures (which were unpublished, mind you) be
re-organised to make them as generic as possible so that kernel developers
can write extensions using a common interface. Not all kernel extensions
can be shoehorned to work under the existing IOkit interface because of
the work the extensions may need to do, but at least now Tiger has a
solidified,
published and guaranteed interface for kernel developers to use now and
in the future.

I gather that Microsoft would be porting their kernel extensions for this
new KPI. But the good news is once this happens, you'd probably never have
to worry about software that's sensitive to kernel changes again, since
Apple
have taken care of this issue... finally!


--
-- tonza


"dmartlaz" <dmartlaz.1qtbxa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Michael Villian says:
>
> "It's already been said, but I'll reiterate. Tiger breaks key features
> which you require. So, you have a choice: stay on MacOS 10.3.9 until
> VPC fully supports 10.4. Regardless of what you NEED, Microsoft will
> take a couple months to make the upgrade available.
>
> So, choose. Tiger or VPC. Currently, you can't have both. So sue me."
>
> Mike, sue me is funny, but the rest is "duh". It's not just Tiger or
> VPC, it's also Tiger or Networking with office server....
>
> Why does Tiger break key/vital features that everyone in a pc
> environment needs? Doesn't Apple want pc users to switch? Is Virtual
> PC such an obscure software program that nobody tested compatibility
> with Tiger before release? Is networking on Microsoft servers such a
> low probability for a mac user that nobody thought about compatibility?
> Why not at least the courtesy disclaimer--
> "Hey, you mac users that need your mac running for vital business needs
> 24/7 shouldn't upgrade to Tiger because Tiger will screw up your
> system."
>
> On my home macs Tiger was a fairly easy upgrade, oh, except for my imac
> G4 issue of the now well-documented combo drive bug of preventing the
> computer from recognizing and mounting music cds or blank cds, and oh,
> for my imac G5 issues of weird sleep and start-up freezes, oh and
> etc......
>
>
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