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Does anyone know if Virtual PC 2004 is SMP aware?

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InlineFive

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It would be cheaper for me to buy a dual-core processor and a ton of memory to run Virtual PCs on instead of multiple PCs. But the question is, is Virtual PC SMP aware?

Thanks!

-Por
 
Does it really matter? The host OS can use one core and the guest OS can use the other and you should have decent performance (all things relative) on both.

I think 2 machines would be cheaper than 1 dual core machine. Two will also be faster, expecially since each core should be slower than a regular proc. Plus you don't have to wait for AMD to release their dual core stuff.
 
Virtual PC can be extremely slow on some applications, even on a HT P4 3.2C with 1 GB of RAM.

We wanted to use it for trade shows, with the guest OS being Win2K server and the applications being WebCT and Blackboard (both webserver plus database systems and for e-learning). Both ran _much_ worse than they did on a Celeron 667, and were way too slow to be usable.
 
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Both ran _much_ worse than they did on a Celeron 667, and were way too slow to be usable.
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That's quite surprising. Have not experienced that personally when utilizing VPC.

As for Bleemo's original question, it does depend on the tasks said machines would be performing. You might look into Virtual Server instead.
 
did you install the extensions?

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Virtual PC can be extremely slow on some applications, even on a HT P4 3.2C with 1 GB of RAM.

We wanted to use it for trade shows, with the guest OS being Win2K server and the applications being WebCT and Blackboard (both webserver plus database systems and for e-learning). Both ran _much_ worse than they did on a Celeron 667, and were way too slow to be usable.
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Originally posted by: alent1234
did you install the extensions?

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Virtual PC can be extremely slow on some applications, even on a HT P4 3.2C with 1 GB of RAM.

We wanted to use it for trade shows, with the guest OS being Win2K server and the applications being WebCT and Blackboard (both webserver plus database systems and for e-learning). Both ran _much_ worse than they did on a Celeron 667, and were way too slow to be usable.
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We tried both VMWare and VPC, and performance was roughly the same for both, so I'm pretty sure it wasn't some error in setup. We tried tweaks like giving the VM high priority, running full screen, etc.

The database-driven webserver approach both use just seems to hit the virtual machine software in a weak spot.
 
that's it

forgot the exact name

on the MS website and in the newsgroups they said to install them since it will improve performance
 
Originally posted by: ActuaryTm
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
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alent1234 was likely referrring to the option to install Virtual Machine additions (under the Action menu).
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This was back in Feb 2004. I don't remember that detail, but I did RTFM for both VM and VPC at the time so I don't think I missed any "do this for 10x speed" tweaks.
 
On my Windows PCs the Virtual PC Additions made a pleasant increase in speed. It's nowhere near a 667Mhz Celeron.

Thanks for the help everyone. 🙂
 
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