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[ribble]

None I'm afraid - I downloaded a pre-configured VMWare image and loaded it staight up with no problems at all. I'm using it to try out some iPhone development, but I'll probably invest in a Mac Mini at some point.

I recall this step-by-step guide pertaining to VMWare - not sure if there are any pointers on there that might help you.

Thanks for that... much appreciated....

[voodooflux]

I take it a funny copy + VM Ware? I've tried to get OSX running in Hyper-V with no luck any pointers?

None I'm afraid - I downloaded a pre-configured VMWare image and loaded it staight up with no problems at all. I'm using it to try out some iPhone development, but I'll probably invest in a Mac Mini at some point.

I recall this step-by-step guide pertaining to VMWare - not sure if there are any pointers on there that might help you.

[ribble]

Yep.

I take it a funny copy + VM Ware? I've tried to get OSX running in Hyper-V with no luck any pointers?

[voodooflux]

You're running OSX in VM on a pc?

Yep.

[ribble]

No, just run OS X in a VM like I'm doing

You're running OSX in VM on a pc?

[scooterscot]

Change the record.

My windows record is broken though and the next album costs too much...

[scooterscot]

No, just run OS X in a VM like I'm doing

It's a start....

[Clippy]

Sounds amazing, time for me to swap OS X for windows 7 then..?

Change the record.

[voodooflux]

Sounds amazing, time for me to swap OS X for windows 7 then..?

No, just run OS X in a VM like I'm doing

[VectraMan]

From what I understand Windows 7 is just Vista.1 - that's why it's a lot more stable than Vista was at launch - all hardware with Vista drivers should work in Windows 7..

I've got it running in a VM. It seems to work well enough, but of course the VM kills off Aero so you don't get the full effect.

If you look on the net, there are some quite in depth technical blogs from the Microsoft OS people talking about how they've optimised the OS and solved some of the more fundamental low level issues. I was reading something the other day how they've solved the problem of one application locking out all of GDI (i.e. the screen) even whilst its code is being loaded from the swap file. That alone should improve multi-tasking considerably, if not single app performance.

I was also reading how the V7 version of Aero only uses video memory for each window image, whereas Vista uses two: one in video memory and one in system memory, taking away much needed system memory.

So it does seem that there's more to it than Vista with a new taskbar. Hard to judge any of this in a VM though.

It's like the difference between Win2k and WinXP, rather than the difference between WinXP and Vista

MS think so too. The version numbers go Win2K: 5.0, XP: 5.1. Vista: 6.0. Windows 7: 6.1. (Yes Windows version 7 is actually 6.1).

[scooterscot]

Sounds amazing, time for me to swap OS X for windows 7 then..?

[b0redom]

From what I understand Windows 7 is just Vista.1 - that's why it's a lot more stable than Vista was at launch - all hardware with Vista drivers should work in Windows 7.

It's like the difference between Win2k and WinXP, rather than the difference between WinXP and Vista.

[voodooflux]

No idea about performance but the first security holes have been found

There's another one to do with the default ACL on the root of the system drive as well I think - only affects the 32-bit version.

[voodooflux]

Yep, been playing with it for a couple of weeks. Seems to be very stable, and anything capable of running Vista will run it with ease.

[DaveB]

No idea about performance but the first security holes have been found