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Virtual PC using Windows XP
« 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?

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Re:Virtual PC using Windows XP
« Reply #1 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.
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Re:Virtual PC using Windows XP
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2004, 10:02:50 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.
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Re:Virtual PC using Windows XP
« Reply #3 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
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Re:Virtual PC using Windows XP
« Reply #4 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.

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Re:Virtual PC using Windows XP
« Reply #5 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.
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Re:Virtual PC using Windows XP
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2004, 09:24:54 AM »
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