Virtual PC

W. Guy Thomas mrguytx at austin.rr.com
Tue Mar 22 03:31:38 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 20:09 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:

> 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
> 


I installed FC4T1 under an M$ virtual machine just fine yesterday. It
worked 'out of the box'.
-- 
W. Guy Thomas <mrguytx at austin.rr.com>
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