On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:42:28 +0100, "Ron O'Brien"
<castcall@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:
>I have a new PC with 64bit Vista Ultimate and 8gig RAM which I was hoping
>would speed up HD digital video editing, but my software application will
>not run under Vista, so I'm thinking use Virtual PC.
>
>The problem, I only have 32bit XP pro, but if That is installed as a virtual
>set-up on the 64bit Vista Host, will it then be able to take advantage of
>the 8gig of RAM or will it still max out at just under 4gig?
Even if you hade access to XP-ProX64 it would not help since VPC2007
guests are 32 bit PC:s and so can only install 32 bit Operating
systems. So your 8Gb memory will not be usable for a guest, only about
3 Gb.
There is another problem too:
Since you talk about video editing I suspect that you will not find
the emulated video card available in a virtual machine useful for your
purposes. It is a Trio 64 card with only limited amounts of memory
(4-8 Mb if my memory serves me right) and it cannot handle DirectX 9
or higher...