[X-Apps] Virtual PC 5.0.4 WARNING WIN98! SLOOOOW ON PANTHER! solved

[R. Welz]

Hello!
I boght the Upgrade to VPC 6.1 and installed it. Was 110 EUR.

It immediately found my PC list. I started up Win98 and VPC6 asked to 
convert my drive containers. I agreed.

-> No Internet.

quit Win98 from the start menu.

This are the settings from TCP/IP PCI Ethernet DEC 21041 based Adapter 
in the Network panel.


In "MyPC Settings the option for SOCKS networking isn't there anymore 
so I switched to "Freigegebenes Netzwerk", (sorry I don't know the term 
but is is the first radio button of two, the other is "Virtual 
Switching".)

I then started up 98 again and changed Network settings to:
Obtain IP Adress (this is the DHCP thing, the mac has a DHCP server in 
its Unix part of the OS:)

Entered my gateway, this is my router connected to the ethernet. For 
USB Modems or other not on Ethernet there should be no such setting.

Other network settings are:
WINS off,
DNS active
Host: a hostname for your Windows
Domain: localhost.de
Search order for DNS Server: MyISP's DNS server (and in my case my 
router works as DNS server as well, so I entered its IP adress, too.
Search order for Domainsuffix:
my ISP's last 2 parts of domain name: freenet.de, just skip the www 
part.
NetBios dimmed, so I cannot make changes,
Extended: Property None (could be named different in english)
Bindings: Client for MS Networks.


When you click on PCI Ethernet DEC 21041 based Adapter in the Network 
panel:
Drivertype:
NDIS 32 Bit AND 16 Bit for extended mode
Bindings: TCP/IP -> PCI Ethernet DEC 21041 Based Adapter
Extended: Burst Length 16 DWORDS
Connection Type: AutoSense
Extra Receive Buffers: 16
Extra Receive Packets 100
Receive Buffers 16
Snooze Mode disabled
Transmit Threshold 96 Bytes
Underrun Max Retries 2

But there were no changes needed in my case.

I had one additional Mac freeze yesterday after my last posting. Today 
I did the upgrade and restarted and browsed the internet several times.
IMHO VPC 6.1 doesn't crash, Mac didn't freeze anymore, got no Win98 
blue screens.

Everythings runs smoothly, well,  I can even write this e-mail with 
having a running Win98 in the background.

Well, its slow on my G4/866 but who needs Microsoft Windows????

Now I am glad I did the upgrade since the other alternative was to buy 
a cheap PC just for Win98, well, I got one offered for 350 EUR but I 
already have 3 PC's on my working desk, 2 Macs, 1 PC for Linux and 
Windows and it would take
1st - space
2nd - PC's are always loud, the fans in my PC work like a vacuum 
cleaner, I was forced to buy an extra case for my PC just to get it 
silent!

I someone whishes me to be of further assistance f.e. configure Linux 
or another Windows on VPC, just ask.

Have a nice weekend.
Robert


Am 06.11.2003 um 14:13 schrieb R. Welz:

> Terribe. I still have no solution. Win 98 takes more than 10 minutes 
> to start up. Now I tried to move a Internet Explorer window and I am 
> waiting 15 minutes now and still see no result.
>
> ... Now I switched VPC to the background and wrothe the above lines 
> ... and Mac freezes. No hints in the logs why.
>
>
> It seems that VPC's HD accesses are more often (as indicated on the 
> bottom left HD icon in the main window) when switching VPC to the 
> background or when getting the dock popping up.
>
> Win98 is so slow to be unusable, really.
>
> Network not tested yet.
>
> I have tried everything. Now I am at the end of my willing to try (and 
> waste hours waiting in front of VPC). So I get the Update for VPC 6.0. 
> today. I already downloaded the upgrade to 6.1 from Microsoft. I will 
> then try to restore and use my Win98 Drive container from the backup I 
> made. If this doesn't work, I will do a clean Windows install on a new 
> drive container. I will report here on the weekend.
>
> Greetings,
> Robert
>
>
> Am 04.11.2003 um 22:48 schrieb R. Welz:
>
>> I made several test getting up my Win98 from Jaguar on Panther, 
>> VPC->"My Win98 PC" -> Network Settings -> "Connect With Sockets" 
>> fails -> Switching this setting to Open Transport slows Win98 down to 
>> nearly unusable!!!
>>
>> I made an written protocoll ( 12 pages ) give me one or two days to 
>> put it into an ineresting article. I will post it here.
>>
>> Win98 was so slooow, it took several minues from clicking 
>> Win-Start->Shutdown to end VPC 5.0.4.
>>
>> See you tomorrow or the day after. Need some speed now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Robert
>>
>> Am 31.10.2003 um 11:49 schrieb R. Welz:
>>
>>> I get my copy of Panther on Monday (my bookstore promised:) . Give 
>>> me one or two days and I can report here if I got my ISDN connection 
>>> running. Unfortunately I have no iMac account.
>>>
>>> And my DSL is work under way, I have some trouble with my provider 
>>> (Freenet), everything (hardware, ADSL-Line) was delivered on 1st of 
>>> October  and should be running but I still have no account data 
>>> (PPPoE Realm and so) to connect to the internet. I compained and I 
>>> am currently awaiting my login data everyday. I can report here, 
>>> too, if I get ADSL running with Windows98.
>>>
>>> Just in case I forget...remind me with a short message (same 
>>> subject) in this forum and I will shure answer.
>>> ... But I won't forget, I promise!
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>
>>> Am Donnerstag, 30.10.03 um 20:01 Uhr schrieb Robert Poland:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Now that I'm getting familiar with Panther, I'm trying to get 
>>>> Virtual PC 5.0.4 to run (Windows 98).
>>>>
>>>> The first task is to connect to the internet. It used to work 
>>>> before 10.3. I'm on a DSL connection and want to use the existing 
>>>> iMac connection. I am trying to get instructions from the Microsoft 
>>>> site. Seems like all the instructions are written for some other 
>>>> world. I keep running into a step that doesn't fit wht I'm looking 
>>>> at.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone gotten Virtual PC 5.0.4 to work with Panther? Networking?
>>>>
>>>> TIA,
>>>> -- 
>>>> Bob Poland - Englewood, CO
>>>> http://www.ibrb.org/
>>>>
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