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4.1.396 does not work in VPC
« on: April 27, 2004, 04:54:57 PM »
At home my Macintosh uses VPC to run windows Apps.
well they recommend you use AV software as VPC CAN get infected.  On My powerbook I used avast32 3.0 home. and as its getting old I updated it to 4.1 and it refuses to load. no error message no nothing.
G5 still uses 3.0 and i dont want to update it untill this is fixed.
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Re:4.1.396 does not work in VPC
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2004, 05:02:41 PM »
Does the title (4.1.396 doesn't work) mean that previous builds of 4.1 used to work, or you just didn't try?
What OS do you use?

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Re:4.1.396 does not work in VPC
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2004, 09:15:54 PM »
igor, i have not tried any other build of 4.1.
version 3 did work though.

OS is windows 2000 Professional and note this is an EMULATED OS
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Re:4.1.396 does not work in VPC
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2004, 02:21:23 AM »
igor I have the same problem.


Virtual PC version 5.0
Windows 98 SE is emulated

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Re:4.1.396 does not work in VPC
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2004, 09:46:38 AM »
Well, the thing is that we can hardly test it, because we don't have any MACs here. Sure, we can test it in VirtualPC for Windows, but I believe the technology underneath is very different (virtualization, instead of emulation) - since the CPU is the same.

No parts of avast! can be loaded? I mean, the installation is finished without any errors, right? Can you manually start some of the avast! executables, such as ashSimple.exe, ashLogV.exe,  ashChest.exe... ?

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Re:4.1.396 does not work in VPC
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2004, 12:54:58 PM »
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No parts of avast! can be loaded? I mean, the installation is finished without any errors, right? Can you manually start some of the avast! executables, such as ashSimple.exe, ashLogV.exe,  ashChest.exe... ?

none of the avast executables will start. whats strange is i dont get an error message. A hourglass appears beside the cursor for a moment and then goes away and nothing has happend. How can avast32 work and not 4.1
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Re:4.1.396 does not work in VPC
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2004, 01:04:22 PM »
Mac I found the problem! all you have to do is increase the memory allocation to VPC. Than avast loads fine. I only had 64Mb of RAM to win 98SE and I forgot that to run windows emulated takes a lot more ram. so I increased allocated ram to 256 and avast loaded

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Re:4.1.396 does not work in VPC
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2004, 01:06:32 PM »
How can avast32 work and not 4.1

That doesn't surprise me, in this case - they are simply different programs.

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Re:4.1.396 does not work in VPC
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2004, 01:13:36 PM »
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That doesn't surprise me, in this case - they are simply different programs.
yes Programs are picky about running in VPC


Thank you Yuna! I too have avast working now! Your suggestion worked
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Re:4.1.396 does not work in VPC
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2004, 01:16:15 PM »
So, you are saying that the only problem was not enough RAM?  ???
How about swap file in the emulated OS... what was the setting? It should handle common memory needs...

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Re:4.1.396 does not work in VPC
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2004, 03:34:26 PM »
the mac sets a default amount of RAM for VPC and apparently it was not enough to run avast. (and also 2 other of my programs started working when i increaded the ram.) it was set for windows to mamage the swap file. although as the HDD is in HFS+ format it takes quite a while for it to read and write to the HD making the swap file nearly useless
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