>Well, if you think about it, it can't really do that. What if an OS X >app and a VPC app try to access the same hardware or memory at the >same time? VPC would always have to be a slave of OS X. Now, it could >be that Intel underneath OS X could provide enough performance >improvement to make VPC much snappier, but I don't think there'd ever >be any real possibility of VPC being able to go direct to the >hardware, since VPC wouldn't know anything about what OS X is doing.
Has anyone used virtual PC on windows to run a different version of windows? It's entirely possible. A friend of mine has done it using a very fast machine with a huge amount of RAM etc. and said the performance was "Pants". This must be because even in a Win/Win situation (unintentional pun!) the virtual machine within Virtual PC is interfacing with a software emulation of a generic graphics card rather than with the actual graphics card installed in the machine, and I think the same is true of everything else, VPC probably even pretends to be a generic BIOS, it's one mammoth abstraction layer even running within the same architecture. Sorry Johannes if this is going round and round a bit, having used VPC, lots of versions of windows, running a red hat web server and having used dual boot OS9 and OSx into unix and linux, I'm fascinated, and also NEVER want to have to do it again - all that experimentation taught me a thing or two about the simple beauty of MacOS, maybe it's not the fastest or most tweakable system, but it sure is slick!). -- Simon Troup Digital Music Art _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
