[Ham-Mac] Virtual PC

[David Kelly]

On Mar 1, 2004, at 8:58 PM, harris ruben wrote:

> Why waste the partition and force a square peg into a round hole?

Because a Macintosh is the "world's best hole?"  :-)

VPC does NOT "waste the partition." I run my VPC virtual machines off a 
"machine image" file which contains the boot OS filesystem for each 
machine. Have run FreeBSD, NT4, and Win95 all at once on a G4-400.

Each machine image file is as big or small as the base OS requires. 
Once the OS is running you can "share" native Mac filesystems. Before 
MacOS X I often fired up Win95 under VPC to connect to the fool 
corporate NT "Server" to snag data I needed. Win95 wrote it directly to 
the Mac folder I wanted it in.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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