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Originally Posted by Cleo
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I installed this on my neighbor's Mactell 15" laptop yesterday. The whole install including installing Windows XP Pro version took under a hour. I accepted all the defaults and only had to change two afterwards. On the Virtualization software I had to tell it to use the laptop's real CD/DVD drive instead of a disk image and to use the laptop's wireless instead of the ethernet port.
It is basically just like the old VirtualPC software except it is fast, real fast. In fact faster then his PC tower that he has.
The window that it runs in resizes to whatever you set the Display control panel to in Windows XP and Windows XP works just like it would on a real PC.
Not sure how to access the right mouse click with the Mac's built-in track pad since it only has one button but there is probably a key combo given in the help files but a two button mouse works as expected. Don't get me started about Apple only putting one button on its stuff.
Just like VirtulalPC the "PC" is just a disk image so once you have everything setup the way you want you can then duplicate it in the Mac's OS for a backup. Then if your "PC" gets a virus or something you just throw this disk image away and use the clean backup. You can also have as many "PCs" running at once as you like with whatever OS you like. Also when you quit the "PC" you can save its state so next time it is ready instantly just the way you left it when you quit it.
This is fantastic software.
