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R3C · Post by **R3C** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:24 am

SOON!!! I'll grab the file tonight, but I may be engrossed in HGL for the evening. Let's plan a couple days in advance so we can get a definite 4 players. Thursday evening? 9:00ish? 10:00ish?

Post by **enderzero** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:11 am

I could do Thurs but not til about 11.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:18 am

I'm having some weird syncing issues between the audio and video on one of my systems. It's running Vista, and the game uses FMod, so I'm going to see if there is a new version of the FMod DLL file. Otherwise I can play from an XP box. I'd rather sit on the couch to play though.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:32 pm

get microsoft virtual pc 2007, its free! Run xp in a window!

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:02 am

That sounds intriguing. You know how much I love to emulate. I'm just having trouble coming up with anything besides this that I might need XP for. I wonder how small one can get a decently functional install of XP.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:04 am

They almost never help, but I haven't tried the compatibility settings either. I'm doing this under Vista X86 too. It may have something to do with the stripped down audio handling in Vista.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:48 am

Windows XP SP2 + all fixes applied = 1.62GB of HD space. If you want, I could burn my VPC HD image for xp to a DVD for you even...

VPC is awesome, it does NAT translation between your main pc and the virtual clients. Even if you have nothing that needs xp, its still fun to play with.

Download MSVPC2K7

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 8:57 am

Sounds good to me. I will get it, and wait for your disc of XPosity.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 12:05 pm

What if one was to run Azureus in a virtual PC, along with PG2. That way they wouldnt have to worry about stupid microsoft turning off the ability to use unsigned drivers. Sneaky bastards, hiding that inside windows updates.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:40 pm

Interesting idea. I wonder if they've thought of such stuff. In theory it should work. Is VPC a "full-on" emulator, high level wrapper, or does it use some of the new virtualization tech on newer CPUs? Obviously the latter wasn't the case early on as it's been available longer than those extensions have existed, but I'm curious about current versions.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:09 pm

It does actually, and I am using hardware virtualization support!

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:58 pm

So now that the new version of Ubuntu is out (8.04 Hardy Herron), I decided to give it a whirl using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.

It doesnt work, in fact it cant even get 20 seconds into setup before it crashes. Even worse, its the newest linux kernel causing the crash, so that means any new linux based on kernel 2.6.25 will not work on VPC07. Ubuntu 8.04 is the LTS version, which is their major release, which will be supported for 3 years. Looks like the obvious way to fix this is for Microsoft to update VPC, dont see that happening though.

There is a competing virtual PC software application called VirtualBox. More info here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox

I got Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) working fine under VPC07, but there were several workarounds that I had to implement to get the following working:

Display
Mouse
Network Interface

Here is a screenshot:

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