Re: Windows Vista And Virtual PC 7 For Mac

You would have to use Ultimate. The EULA for Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium says that you may not run them in a virtual machine. Crazy as something like that sounds, MS really did put that in the EULA. There is nothing in the code that would prevent it but the licensing issue is there.

Vista will run very slowly and the virtual machine additions do not help Vista. You would need at least a 512MB ram allocation and I recommend 768MB. You will not get the 3d stuff, of course, but Vista will run in a vm. I doubt that you will find it useable, however. If you were running a G5 I would feel a little better about your results but I don't think a G4 will have enough horsepower. The effective performance of a vm on a G4 will fall well below the 800MHZ minimum requirement for Vista.

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I have Virtual PC 7 with Windows XP Proffesional on a PowerBook G4.
Will Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate function under Virtual PC
7?


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