[Ti] Virtual PC question

[Thomas Fulton]

I seem to remember that someone mentioned that Solaris would not run on 
VPC7. If you have VPC 6.0 its probably the best  you can do aside from 
buying a cheap PC.
This should give you the answer.
On Dec 19, 2005, at 10:29 AM, mac2 wrote:

> I am the person who asked the original question.
>
> As I haven't followed the product very closely, I was not aware that 
> there was a version 6.1.  I have an old copy of 6.0, and I knew that 
> m$ had purchased Virtual PC and came out with version 7.x.
>
> I guess that I should re-ask my original question.
>
> I will soon have a new Powerbook 1.67 Ghz and, in addition to Mac OS 
> X, I need to run Solaris 10 x86.
>
> Should I stick with Virtual PC 6.0, should I hunt down a copy of 6.1, 
> or should I purchase a new copy of 7.0 from m$???
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jerry K
>
>
> Chris Olson wrote:
>> On Dec 19, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Dr Trevor J. Hutley wrote:
>>> I get the impression that with Microsoft it has not progressed.
>> The main reason Microsoft bought VirtualPC is as an emulation layer  
>> for backwards compatibility of legacy software in Windows Vista when  
>> they transition to the WinFS database-style file system.  The Mac  
>> version just happened to be along for the ride.  It'll eventually be  
>> dropped from their software lineup for Mac.
>> There were lots of pirated copies of VirtualPC6 floating around on  
>> the internet.  VPC6.1 broke the serial number hack that allowed the  
>> pirated copies to run.  VPC7 added token support for the G5 processor 
>>  with no AltiVec support and a "fix" for the G5 not supporting pseudo 
>>  little-endian mode.  It's slower than the proverbial molasses in  
>> January compared to VPC6 on a G4.
>> There has not been one performance enhancement to VirtualPC since  
>> version 6.0
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