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by **s_kalb** » Mon 15 May, 2006 10:00 am

I've heard about Q-emu, about GuestPC, and I do own Virtual PC.

now I'd like to know what's the best software to use ("best" for speed and host-to-guest compatibility. If I missed one that you think I should check out please tell me ;-)

(I heard about Parallels and Boot Camp but those ones are Intel-only.)

thanks and have a nice day

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by **Antony** » Mon 15 May, 2006 10:05 am

According to reviews from major Mac magazines, the best PC emulator for PowerPC Mac is Microsoft Virtual PC.

Microsoft Virtual PC 7 for Mac runs faster then Virtual PC 6, but it does not support non-Windows well. To have the best emulation under PPC based Mac, try to maximise your RAM. Faster CUP helps.

You might want to see this [sdt=5609]old thread[/sdt] regarding Virtual PC performance.

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by **s_kalb** » Mon 15 May, 2006 1:59 pm

thank you for the quick response with the helpful information ;-)

though I never heard about that VMware application and their site is rather confusing.
Oh well. I'll stick with Virtual PC until I can afford myself a next-gen PowerMac Intel :-)

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by **Antony** » Tue 16 May, 2006 12:45 am

s_kalb wrote:(I heard about Parallels and Boot Camp but those ones are Intel-only.)

Parallels Workstation is a virtualisation tool. In short, virtualisation gives the Guest OS to access hardware resources (instructions) directly. [sdt=11191]see our Parallels thread[/sdt]. More information on Virtualisation at Wikipedia.

Boot Camp allows users to boot into Windows XP directly, it's not under any emulation or virtualisation. It's the same concept as dual booting between Linux and Windows OS installed on the same PC. [sdt=11185]see our discussion on Boot Camp[/sdt]

s_kalb wrote:I'll stick with Virtual PC until I can afford myself a next-gen PowerMac Intel

That's a wise choice.

If you really need to run applications under Windows, and you have a PC (and network), you can use Remote Desktop Connection (free from Microsoft's mactopia). It runs Windows on the PC, and network to it.

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