on 2/6/02 6:23 pm, John Dixon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I use Virtual PC all the time for testing applications that have to run > on PC's and find the response more than reasonable. With the update to > 5.0.3, there also seems to have been some speed improvements. > [..snip...] > On Sunday, June 2, 2002, at 04:08 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote: >> I just tested some x86 distributions (Suse 7.3 and 8.0, Mandrake 7.1) on >> an IBook2 14" G3 600 - 384 Mo of Ram under Virtual PC 5.03. It ran but >> so slowly (just alike a toy, realy unusable, even to drag an icon on the >> kde desktop) that i drop the virtual linux machines directly to the >> trash... Perhaps in using a biproc G4...
If you can manage to do this under Classic, I think you'll find it much better - VPC performance is significantly worse under X. There are also some tips relating to configuring Windows to improve speed (especially 2000/ME/XP, where the user interface candy soaks up cycles) - see the VPC read-mes. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com | Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
