Virtual PC

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Tue Mar 22 01:09:28 UTC 2005


On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 05:49:17PM -0600, Anthony E. Scandora, Jr. wrote:
 > There is a fine kernel patch that supports Fedora Core 3 on Microsoft's
 > Virtual PC at http://vpc.visualwin.com/Notes/FedoraCore.3.Final.html.

I see no kernel patch there.
 
 > A
 > note on the main page of that site says "Installer is very slow, as is
 > general performance" about Fedora Core 4 Test 1.  Does anyone know
 > 1)       Has the kernel patch has moved into the main distribution of Fedora
 > Core 4?

FC3 had the 4g4g patch, FC4 doesn't. That should make a big enough 
difference that it should 'just work'.  Aside from that, nothing specifically
for VirtualPC has been included.

 > 2)       Is the slow installer and general performance comment about Core 4
 > on Virtual PC vs. Core 3 on Virtual PC, or is that a comment on Core 4 in
 > general?

That's probably the various debugging code thats present right now.
In a few days, I'm going to turn it off, and leave it run for a few
builds with it off so we can get some performance measurements.

		Dave




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