Not officially from Microsoft, though it does work fine. It emulates standard hardware (S3 video card, intel 440BX chipset, DEC/Intel 21140 NIC) so most OSes out there should support it without having to dig up drivers.
I personally prefer VMWare as it lets the guest OS write to the host's hard drive -- VPC only allows read access to drives that have partitions mounted by the host on them. This allows me to have a Linux install that I can boot into and use inside of VMWare. Jamie On Wed, October 5, 2005 10:55 am, j m g wrote: > Does VPC have linux/bsd support? I've been using VMWare for a few years > simply because they have support for bsd/linux of various kernels, > currently there is support for solaris 9 and 10. I haven't tried the > workstation 5.5beta, but there are some interesting new features. > > > On 10/4/05, Jamie Furtner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Yes, you do. They're the same as having three seperate physical >> machines, and depending on your hardware you could have all three guests >> running at the same time. >> >> I'm not sure if VPC gives the same MAC address to the NIC in every >> machine though I suspect that it doesn't. This should cause problems >> with activation, though I've only experimented with MSDN volume license >> OSes at >> work. >> >> Jamie >> >> >> On Tue, October 4, 2005 4:27 pm, FORC5 wrote: >> >>> why ? but with M$ one would guess. >>> >>> fp >>> >>> At 03:08 PM 10/4/2005, James Maki Poked the stick with: >>> >>> >>>>> From a strictly legal standpoint (at least according to MS), >>>>> wouldn't you >>>> have to have 3 Win XP licenses to install on 3 Virtual PCs? >>>> >>>> Jim Maki >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: Behalf Of rls >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> nOw that is cOOl - I could install 2 or three versions of WinXP >>>>> on the computer in the family room. The twins could screw up their >>>>> 'work >>>>> space' and not impact my wife - the school teacher's - 'space'. >>>>> Boy >>>>> would that save me a ton of aggravation. And I am guessing, I >>>>> could just create a image of the first install and just copy that >>>>> to the others. >>>>> >>>>> Guess I can stop threatening the twins with gross bodily harm >>>>> in the future. Lol, maybe they will think I have a kinder gentler >> side. >>>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Tallyho ! ]:8) >>> Taglines below ! >>> -- >>> Most wonderful ideas are so obvious that they're not. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Jamie Furtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> "The difference between intelligence and stupidity is that >> intelligence has its limits." --unknown >> >> >> > > > -- > -jmg > > > Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. > Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918] > > -- Jamie Furtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The difference between intelligence and stupidity is that intelligence has its limits." --unknown
