Th3_uN1Qu3 Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Wrong. CPUIdle and similar cooling programs work with all the idle CPU time. Unless you're running an application that takes 100% CPU it'll provide improvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mijzelf Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 I tried installing Win98SE on MS's VirtualPC 2007. For some reason, the bootdisk for Win98SE from www.bootdisk.com doesn't seem to work with it, with the VM saying its file size is wrong.Did you feed the downloaded file from bootdisk.com directly to the VM? AFAIK all, or most images from bootdisk.com are executables which create a (physical) floppy for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexanrs Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 My bad, I meant idle.com, that comes with VPC Additions for DOS in VPC2004. I was talking about DOS, I know that the Windows-based software works fine . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Th3_uN1Qu3 Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 My bad, I meant idle.com, that comes with VPC Additions for DOS in VPC2004. I was talking about DOS, I know that the Windows-based software works fine .DOSBox, or check out my bootdisk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninho Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 (edited) Actually in order for the DOS virtual machine to execute a HLT instruction in most idling circumstances, one needs to load *both* :- dosidle - sleepvm (or equivalent; like the DOS TSR which comes with the VMadditions for MS VPC)Load (load high if using an UMB mem manager) these, inside of he VM of course. Tech note : Dosidle is excellent, however its author forgot to hook "int 28h" This is why the system will not idle as expected at the prompt inside of some programs, as someone noted. SleepVM will take care of this, or you could add the sleepvm feature to dosidle easily enough since dosidle is provided with source ASM... These will suffice to "tame" the VM even when it is running Windows 3.1/3.11fWG. However there exists a VxD which can be loaded in addition (in system.ini) and will do the HALT at idle trick in a Windows way.HTH-- Ninho Edited July 27, 2008 by Ninho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Th3_uN1Qu3 Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Oh, now i get that he was talking about CPU idle time in DOS. I didn't even know that kind of thing existed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeSkillz Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 I've only recently gotten into using a VM (previously I used a real 98 box, but I upgraded to a Vista machine...well, the hardware was an upgrade, Vista was a downgrade), and Virtual PC 2007 hasn't failed me so far. I've used a couple different versions of Windows XP and Windows 98 SE without any trouble.So that's my recommendation for XP/Vista users: Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. 98SE doesn't overheat anything for me, and only uses a tiny fraction of the CPU and RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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