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Is VirtualPC based on Terminal Services?

Source: microsoft.public.mac.virtualpc
Sent: 01/17/2006
From: "Kay" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

This might seem an odd question, but arose from a very real problem.

The situation is the following:
We are running VPC 7 on an iMac G5 with 10.4.4, the PC installed is XP
Pro SP2.

We are trying to run a localization software on it that has a quite
elaborate registration/activation procedure. The software gets
installed, produces a number that has to be sent to the developer, who
will return a product certificate that needs to be activated.

The activation process reports a successful activation and asks to
relaunch the program. The program now finds a valid license but is
still locked and refers the user to the customer support.

Customer support from the developer tried to send us various product
certificates with different options enabled which didn't change
anything.

After checking back with the development team the customer service rep
told us that the software will not work with terminal services. He also
mentions Citrix in his explanation.

We did now turn off terminal services in XP and -one never knows- all
services in OS X with no result.

The customer service rep (and the developer probably too) doesn't seem
to know what VirtualPC actually is and keeps on telling us that we
can't use the software via terminal services.

I have now been trying to find out if VirtualPC in any way relies on
terminal services in its operation, but could not find any information
about the architecture of VPC for Mac, only for Virtual Machine in
general.

I would appreciate if someone could point me to any detailed info
regarding the architecture of VPC for Mac or shed some light on the
topic.

We have quite good experience with running all kind of software on VPC
for Mac including ones with hardware dongles and don't want to be
forced to buy a PC just for one program.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Kay

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Re: Is VirtualPC based on Terminal Services?

Sent: 01/17/2006
From: Richard Cardona <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

It sounds like you are getting the runaround based on using a
"virtualization product." I can't understand why disabling Terminal
Services isn't convincing enough. If you haven't installed Citrix, then
it just isn't involved.

VPC for Mac (and 2004, Virtual Server) do not rely on or depend on
Terminal Services. VPC of course supports Terminal Services because XP
does.

The virtual video card emulated is an S3 Trio card and the presentation
is a console representation of the S3"s video buffer. Plain and simple.
This is why you can run Linux and other non-Windows OS's.

There are few pages at Microsoft that say the same thing about the
emulated hardware:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/virtualserver/2005/proddocs/vs_tr_a_emulate.mspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msvs/msvs/virtual_machine_emulated_hardware.asp

There are minor differences between the various virtual products but not
in the video subsystem.

This powerpoint presentation compares VPC for Mac and Terminal Services
and describes how they are different, so that might be helpful:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/virtualserver/2005/proddocs/vs_tr_a_emulate.mspx

Depending on the video modes the application expects you may want to
guarantee that your screen dimensions are compatible. Other suggestions
are to enable the Scripts menu from VPC's application preferences and
try toggling "Compatability mode", "Hardware cursor" or "MMX Settings"
those are few options that may or not made a difference with video.

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