Horizontal evaluation of Virtual PC software

Nowadays, Linux is becoming more and more popular. More and more people are paying attention to the development of Linux, but many people are not very familiar with this system, and the installation of Linux is also very complicated, not everyone dares to draw a place in their own hard drive space to keep them safe. As a result, the virtual PC came into being. A Virtual PC virtualizes a PC on your existing operating system. The virtual PC has its own hard disk and memory, that is to say, it is another host independent of the existing operating system. You can install and run another operating system on these operating systems.Evaluation hardware platform

CPU Poison Dragon 950

Memory SDR 192 m (128 M + 64 m)

Motherboard elite k7vza ktsung

Hard drive west 40g 5400 RPM 2 m

Graphics tnt2 32 m

Sound Card Board comes with ac97 sound card

System WINXP

Currently, two popular virtual PC software types are available: Virtual PC and VMWare. This is a comprehensive evaluation of the functions and speed that users are concerned about. First, virtual PC is used.

Virtualpc is a tool developed by connectix to simulate operating systems. It can work on Microsoft Win95, win97, Win98, winme, Win2000, and WINXP. But I heard that the new version launched by Microsoft no longer supports Linux, so what else do we use it? What is the significance of installing another Win98 on Windows2000? This is a digress. The main character we came out today is the virtualpc 5.1 build 370 and E version published by coinnetix.

(Virtualpc window)

Another major player is VMware. an excellent "Virtual Machine" software launched by Inc. It can work on Win2000, WINNT, WINXP, and Linux. Because Win9x is not stable enough, it is not qualified as a running platform of VMware, as the launch of VMware Server makes it more powerful, virtualpc can no longer afford it. we are evaluating the personal version of VMware Workstation 4.0.0 build 4460 and E.

(VMware window)

　　Function

From the operating platform, VMWare should be better. Although it cannot work on Win9x, we are currently using Win2000 or above, and due to the instability of Win9x, we are not qualified to be a running platform. one of the cool features of VMware than virtualpc is that it can work on the Linux platform, so we can download a Win98 in Linux,

Function	Virtual PC	VMWare
Operating Platform	Windows series	Windows2000, NT, XP, and Linux
Supported platforms	Win series Linux BSD series OS/2 MS-DOS Solaris	Windows Linux, bsd OS/2 MS-DOS NetWare
Virtual Hard Disk	Supported	Supported
Physical Hard Disk	Not Supported	Supported
Real CD and Image	Supported	Supported
Real floppy disk and Image	Supported	Supported
Supports multiple network connections	Supported Share networking (NAT) Local, host and external Local only External only Local and host	Supported Share networking (NAT) Bridged networking Host-only networking
Screen capture	Not Supported	Supported
Network Settings	Not Supported	Supported
Suspend Function	Supported	Supported

If your host is strong enough, it is okay to install Longhorn. That is to say, VMWare can support cross-platform services, but we are using for win today.

On the supported platforms, the two are comparable. We can see that virtual has a Sun Company Solaris, while VMWare has a Netware. netware is rarely heard of, but for Solaris, I have tried it. VMWare also supports Solaris, SCO, and so on. virtualpc does not provide weak support for multiple platforms. However, I heard that Microsoft's latest version no longer supports Linux.

The network connection function, the real CD and CD image, the real floppy disk and the disk image, and the pause function are both well supported. VMware supports the physical hard disk feature. That is to say, VMWare does not need to create a virtual hard disk image on your hard disk, you can operate your physical hard disk like a real host, such as partitioning, formatting, deleting, and formatting MBR partitions. For those diskless workstation, this function is really cool. You don't need to use the optical drive, as long as a CD image, we can install a new system on our own hard disk, and use it to save the MBR startup partition. however, this is also a dangerous feature. If you are a newbie, it is better to establish a virtual hard disk to be safer. because the virtual hard disk is isolated from your data, it will not damage your hard disk. virtualpc does not support physical hard disks.

(VMware physical hard disk settings)

VMware provides more detailed network settings than virtualpc. After VMware is installed, it establishes three new connections in the network connection and adds two services to the system service. it may be related to its support for physical hard disks. We can ignore it here. however, if you use the supplicant authentication, you must disable the New Connection established by VMware. VMware also has a cool and useful screen capture function.

In terms of functions, we can see that virtualpc has lost. VMware is the absolute winner in this regard. So is the speed?

What we use to test and install today is lindows v4.0 launched by lindows. Because this system is the most convenient to install, it is more convenient than Windows series installation, and there is no need to install the drive path. Many people have never heard of it? It doesn't matter. When you see its name, you will know that it is a "hybrid" between Linux and Windows.

(Linux Startup screen captured by VMware)

For the sake of fairness, we have all set the virtual hard disk functions of both, 96 MB memory, and the others remain unchanged. Well, let's first look at the data:

Project	Virtual PC	VMWare
Lindows installation time	10:01:07	06:32:12
Lindows startup time	03:12:05	02:32:05
Copy 138.6 M rmvb movie time	01:02:32	00: 49: 78
Compressed rmvbmovie is tar.gz time	02:27:03	01:51:41

It seems that VMware is superior to virtual PC in both lindows installation and startup, and VMWare is faster than virtual PC during installation. The lindows running with Vmware are faster than those running with virtual PC.

(Use virtual PC to run lindows)

As the saying goes: Not afraid of not knowing the goods, just afraid of comparing the goods. The result is obvious. VMware is better than virtual PC in terms of functionality and speed, and the new version launched after Microsoft acquired connectix does not support Linux anymore, so do we need to use virtual PC? However, we still expect better performance after Ms improvement.

Therefore, VMWare is a wise choice, whether it is a master or a cainiao. In addition, VMWare supports cross-platform support.