Whats Virtual PC?

Question

What is Virtual PC? what it means?

Answer 1

It is a tech of MS to make experience of Windows on MAC operating system look at www.microsoft.com/mac

see a demo at http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/virtualpc/demo/movie.html

Answer 2

As I understand in my quick search, it allows different OS's to be ran at once (The particular Virtual PC that I looked at was the Microsoft one. They had a video of Windows XP, 2000, and even 3.1 on the same machine.) It wouldn't be very useful to light computer users, but, for example, if a program was made only for Windows 3.1, it more than like would have compatibility problems in XP, but you can use it with Virtual PC.

Answer 3

It is a fully running operating system within another. A 'virtual machine'. It is often used to test other operating systems or a configuration before being deployed. Often used by software developers to test an application across platforms without having multiple computers or having to reboot to access a different operating system (linux, Windows 98, 2000, XP, Mac OS, etc..)

Answer 4

As above, it's often used for testing OS before installing them with the purpose of evaluating "its behavior", or in the case you have to do certain task in another different OS and you don't want to uninstall or install a new OS by making a new partition on the HDD.

Just make sure if you use one of these apps to have enough RAM memory since once it's running your PC may be very unstable (let's say 256MB or higher).

Saludos.

Answer 5

You may have seen emulators for SNES, C64 and other old machines available for the PC. They emulate the hardware of those old consoles so you can run old games. Well, there are emulators for modern PCs too, so you can have a copy of Linux running from within Windows or whatever.

Answer 6

VPC was software that would allow a mac to run PC software. Apple now has their own that will allow an IntelMac to run WinXP (Bootcamp.)