Yeah. The host OS is Windows XP. The VS is Chrome4XP 2nd Generation (revision 6) located at
http://sz1.desktopninja.com/cxp2.html . The color scheme is [4/8] Blue with flag.
I like Virutal PC. It is pretty cool being able to run any x86 OS out there without having to mess with your partations and MBR's. It is also an advantage how you can just up and delete the Virtual Hard drive image associated with any of your installed OSes. It doesn't affect your Host OS at all.
The downside of the Virtual PC is it emulates old, slow as molosses hardware. It emulates a motherboard with the 443BX chipset(w/No AGP Gart), a S3Trio 64v+ PCI video card, a Sound Blaster 16 ISA Sound card and a Basic 24x or slower CD-ROM drive. It doesn't matter wether you really have a 52x CD-Rom, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD+RW, etc., it emulates a slow CD-ROM drive. The virtual hard drive runs at the speed of like PIO mode 4 or ATA/33(I haven't tested it to know for sure) and it shares the network with your host computer.
If you use Dial-up you have to use an external modem on a shared Com port to get a modem working on the Guest OS. With Dial-up you can use a Winmodem or a external modem(on say Com1) to connect to the internet of your Host machine, then you can use a second external on Com2...or your external on Com1(when using a Winmodem on the host OS) to connect on the Guest machine(at the same time....2 connections at once). You need 2 phone lines to do it, but alot of people nowadays who are forced to use dial-up have a second line so they don't tie up thier main line. Why is that an advantage? Well you can download big files on your host machine then go to the guest machine with the second connection and surf the net at full speed while you are downloading stuff on the host machine. Of course you can use DirectX with it but you don't get 3D Acceleration or AGP Texture support(due to the fact that a S3 Trio 64v+ is not a 3D accelerator). It looks funny having your system Identify your CPU as a Pentium 4 but the chipset is 443BX(Slot 1 Celeron/Pentium II/Pentium III chipset).
It is a great way of experimenting with Linux too. I've seen people ask a few times about a Linux that runs in Windows. With Virtual PC you can run any Linux in Windows.
[ August 28, 2003: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]
