Vista - VirtualBox, anyone?

Anyone here tried the current version of VirtualBox? I'm playing with it now
to see which I like better. So far, VB seems to run much faster then VPC and
appears to use multiple cores. I could not get Win98 installed, however, it
crashed on install. Win2000 is up and running on it.

Zootal wrote:I haven't tried it but I think the users at
http://forums.virtualbox.org/index.php

probably have.

"Richard Cardona" <Search.Archives@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:usXRZ1S8IHA.5052@xxxxxxMost don't seem to have done so. Maybe I should write a comparison?

One weakness of Virtual PC is it's emulated display adaptor. VB uses a
"VirtualBox Graphics Adapter". I'm not sure what it emulates, but it is
flexible and robust. One of my biggest complaints about VPC is you can't put
it into 1680x1050 mode. With VB, you not only can, but you can actually
resize the entire window dynamically, and it changes it's resolution to
match. For example, right now I have it in 1264x409 because that is the size
I resized it to. It seems to accept any combination of height and width up
to the resolution of the host adaptor. And it doesn't just scale the
display - it actually changes it's resolution according to the size of the
VB windows.

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:51:07 -0700, "Zootal"
<msnews@xxxxxx> wrote:
I have found the opposite !
I have tried VirtualBox and DosBox on XP and Linux, also VirtualPC on
XP.
On Linux both DosBox and VirtualBox with vms of Wfw3.11, Win95 and Win
Me playing an old dos game called blood ran so slowly as to make the
game unplayable.
On XP VirtualBox ran Windows 3.11, 95 and Me very slowly and with 95
and Me I was limited to 16 colours and 640x480 screen. Again the game
was unplayable due to low speed.
DosBox ran the game well, with sound, 95 under VirtualPC also ran the
game very well, except with no sound.
Perhaps I should get more information about VirtualBox regarding these
high resolutions and speed.


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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:51:07 -0700, "Zootal"
<msnews@xxxxxx> wrote:
You're saying the users at the virtualbox forums aren't using
VirtualBox?
VBox doesn't emulate a video card, its a software-based card, if you
use a non-supported OS, you don't get much choice in resolutions. VPC
has a very standard and basic video card that allows for a lot greater
compatibility with older OSes.
VPC allows dynamic resizing, always has.
VPC doesn't scale the display either, it dynamically changes the
resolution also.

VirtualBox and VPC are very similar in a lot of ways...Innotek worked
with Connectix to make the OS/2 version of Virtual PC.

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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
I do not work for Microsoft.