RoBlog: Virtual PC 2004 runs Linux pretty well (Surprised?)

November 22, 2003

Virtual PC 2004 runs Linux pretty well (Surprised?)

As much as I am shocked by this fact, Microsoft didn't break running Linux as a guest operating system under Virtual PC 2004. For those of you not familiar with it, Microsoft bought Connectix (makers of Virtual PC for Windows and the Mac) and rebranded it as their own product. This directly competes with VMWare. I like VMWare, but it's never worked well on my machine.

In any case, I was looking through the MSDN subscriber downloads and saw Virutal PC 2004 up there since November 10th and decided to try it out. I've only been using it for a day now, but it seems to run Fedora and Debian pretty well (and faster than VMWare did actually). Here's a screenshot:

Let me know if you've had success with it, or if you have any ideas why VMWare runs RedHat really slow on Sony Vaio desktops.

Posted by rcleveng at November 22, 2003 04:24 PM

Comments

Yes, VPC 2004 emulates a S3 Trio card. It also works with Debian once I upgraded XFree86 to 4.2.1

Posted by: Rob at December 4, 2003 10:53 AM

Been trying for last couple of days to install Debian on Virtual PC 5.2 (Microsoft made that version available a few months ago). First part of installation works OK, but having trouble with X windows. Never installed linux before, so I don't know if I am missing something. VPC 5.2 emulates an S3 video card, is it the same with VPC 2004? (I don't want to upgrade just yet if I can get out of it)

Posted by: Adelle at November 28, 2003 11:41 PM