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Title: Virtual PC using Windows XP
Post by: sookiluke on October 20, 2004, 09:50:39 PM

I have not been able to determine if avast will run on Virtual PC 6 using Windows XP as an operating system. Can avast be used to provide virus protection on this configuration?

Thanks

Title: Re:Virtual PC using Windows XP
Post by: RejZoR on October 20, 2004, 10:00:49 PM

Sure. VirtualPC perfectly simulates real hardware,so its just Windows XP dependant. And avast! works great in Windows XP. So it should work just fine. A bit slower than on real hardware,but it should work.

Title: Re:Virtual PC using Windows XP
Post by: Lisandro on October 20, 2004, 10:02:50 PM

Quote from: sookiluke on October 20, 2004, 09:50:39 PM

I have not been able to determine if avast will run on Virtual PC 6 using Windows XP as an operating system. Can avast be used to provide virus protection on this configuration? Thanks

For sure, just testing  ;)
But, anyway, I think if Virtual PC can emulate Windows XP environment, avast! will be able to run there  8) Anyway, just a guess, I'm not sure.

Title: Re:Virtual PC using Windows XP
Post by: .: Mac :. on October 20, 2004, 11:31:46 PM

Ok yes it will as I run it daily.  Be sure you have OS X set to allocate VPC as much of the system memory as possible for best performance

Title: Re:Virtual PC using Windows XP
Post by: sookiluke on October 21, 2004, 03:49:23 PM

I thought that with Mac OSX you didn't have to allocate memory because it does dynamic allocation.

Title: Re:Virtual PC using Windows XP
Post by: .: Mac :. on October 22, 2004, 03:02:24 AM

It Does, However on some eariler versions of OS X (10.0, 10.1) it is not very effective but if you have Jaguar or Panther you should be fine.

Title: Re:Virtual PC using Windows XP
Post by: Prabhakar on November 02, 2004, 09:24:54 AM

Quote from: sookiluke on October 20, 2004, 09:50:39 PM

I have not been able to determine if avast will run on Virtual PC 6 using Windows XP as an operating system. Can avast be used to provide virus protection on this configuration?

Thanks