- Oct 27, 2004
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Hi, I just learned about virtualization, virtual pc and virtual machines and tried one out. I get to know about VM's after asking about running different O.S. in one machine.
I was fascinated when I tried microsoft's virtual pc 2007 and ran win99se on it. I was quite amazed on the technology as you can run multiple o.s. on top of another o.s., anyway, the reason why i got stumbled upon vm's is because i needed to run win98se again to run a game which cant run on xp. At first my idea was to put two o.s. on my machine by putting up partitions, but somebody suggested to try a virtual machine, so i made a little research and tried one out.
I have some couple of questions about virtual pc's and virtual machines:
I noticed that virtual pc makes up a virtual hard disk that can be bigger than your actual hard disk but the actual limit is your real hard disk right because the virtual hard disk size gets bigger when data is being added right?
One of my biggest concern is that in virtual pc, you cant use your real graphics card so the games you will be playing within the virtual machine cannot use your real graphics card, only the virtual graphics card made by the virtual machine is this correct? Is there a virtual machine that let you use your real hardware like graphics card?
and regarding the speed of virtual machines, i find the speed of win98se on the virtual machine a bit slow even if you allocate a lot of memory for it, is there any way to speed this to near native speed (the "run virtual machine at full speed" is already checked by default), or is there any other virtual machines that can run faster than virtual pc?
Lastly, VM's VMPlayer is freeware but I cant make a virtual machine on it and I cant run microsoft's virtual machines in it, does it mean there is a need to purchase another program that lets you make a virtual machine with VMware?
I was fascinated when I tried microsoft's virtual pc 2007 and ran win99se on it. I was quite amazed on the technology as you can run multiple o.s. on top of another o.s., anyway, the reason why i got stumbled upon vm's is because i needed to run win98se again to run a game which cant run on xp. At first my idea was to put two o.s. on my machine by putting up partitions, but somebody suggested to try a virtual machine, so i made a little research and tried one out.
I have some couple of questions about virtual pc's and virtual machines:
I noticed that virtual pc makes up a virtual hard disk that can be bigger than your actual hard disk but the actual limit is your real hard disk right because the virtual hard disk size gets bigger when data is being added right?
One of my biggest concern is that in virtual pc, you cant use your real graphics card so the games you will be playing within the virtual machine cannot use your real graphics card, only the virtual graphics card made by the virtual machine is this correct? Is there a virtual machine that let you use your real hardware like graphics card?
and regarding the speed of virtual machines, i find the speed of win98se on the virtual machine a bit slow even if you allocate a lot of memory for it, is there any way to speed this to near native speed (the "run virtual machine at full speed" is already checked by default), or is there any other virtual machines that can run faster than virtual pc?
Lastly, VM's VMPlayer is freeware but I cant make a virtual machine on it and I cant run microsoft's virtual machines in it, does it mean there is a need to purchase another program that lets you make a virtual machine with VMware?