Has anyone every used the Guest PC product?

dmetzcher

dmetzcher

Metzcher.com
http://www.lismoresystems.com/en/
The product is Guest PC (link above).
Has anyone every used it?
If so, how is it's performance in comparison with VirtualPC? Pros? Cons?
Also, can I run something like VPC or Guest PC from my FireWire drive while using my iBook's internal drive as the boot volume (I do this for an app or two, mostly huge things that I don't want eating space on my hard drive)? Pros? Cons?

Thanks!
 
Haven't used GuestPC, but you can use VPC with its data on an external drive without problems. Since the computer's not really _booting_ from Windows, but rather emulates a PC with Windows in a virtual machine, it's not important where the disk image with the PC's data resides - as long as the emulator knows where to find the data.
 
fryke said:
it's not important where the disk image with the PC's data resides
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When you say "disk image", is that exactly what it is, as in a Mac OS X disk image file that is re-written to while VPC is running? I've never experimented with it yet, so I apologize if the question sounds elementary.
 
wow, its back! i haven't heard of these guys in years. i thought it got bought by virtual pc before ms bought virtual pc. back in the os 8 days i downloaded a demo and installed ms dos 4 or 6. at that time it was slow, on my 33mhz 040. wonder how it compares now.
 
GuestPC recently enjoyed some publicity by claiming that GuestPC's Universal Binary will run Windows at very near-native speeds. If true, then amazing.

And to answer question above, from a MacObserver article: (referring to GuestPC)

MacObserver said:
"...and allows you to install operating systems that use that processor, such as Windows or an x86 flavor of Linux."
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Nothing about VirtualPC says you'd be able to run Linux using VPC. Then again, it's on Micro$oft's page....... so grain of salt there. I'll look around.
 
dmetzcher said:
When you say "disk image", is that exactly what it is, as in a Mac OS X disk image file that is re-written to while VPC is running? I've never experimented with it yet, so I apologize if the question sounds elementary.
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Not exactly. VPC uses its own kind of disk image, not dmgs. I think you can mount them with Disk Utility anyway, though (I'm not 100% sure of this). GuestPC also uses its own kind of image.

Personally, I've never had much luck with any PC emulator except VPC. They're all much harder to use, and when I finally get something that remotely resembles 'success' with them, they're not too hot anyway. Definitely slower than VPC. It's hard for me to distinguish my memories oif GuestPC, iEmulator and QEmu, though. I just remember they all drove me mad.

DOSbox has its merit, though. It's slow as heck, but it does play old DOS games more accurately than VPC. This is because VPC has trouble with sound (which MS said they were going to fix for 7.0....I'M STILL WAITING!)

VPC is king, and it doesn't look like that's going to change, at least not on PPC systems.
 
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