Run Vista on your Intel Mac with Q

How did you install Ubuntu on Q?
Are there instructions? I can't find them on the website.
Please help.

I looked into Q a while back, if I recall it isn't a virtualization product like Parallels and as a result is much slower, can anybody actually running Q with XP or better yet Vista confirm it's speed is less than ideal?

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Randy

Yep, that Apple Mouse Utility works great--thanks for the link!

ah nice. that may well be it. :) I'll check out that apple mouse utility as well. and yeah, i was using bootcamp 1.1, and Vista Beta Bild 5472--so a little newer.

Oh, and for those looking for right click capability:

Try using Apple Mouse Utility. Put it in your startup folder in XP/Vista and that should take care of your troubles.

http://www.geocities.com/pronto4u/applemouse.html

Kyle:

I did it on the MacBook, and you appear to have a MacBook Pro. Also, I installed Vista when Beta 2 first came out, so I was using the older version of Boot Camp. Perhaps this latest update fixed some things for Vista as well as XP?

I'm ordering 2 GB of RAM from Newegg right now to replace the stock 512 MB, so when that arrives I'll try it again. I'm sure it's much nicer when you have an adequate amount of RAM, heh.

I've been running Vista on my MBP with BootCamp... right-click doesn't work at all unless I use a mouse, but its running failry smooth!

@daniel--audio worked fine out of the box (so to speak) for me, and I deleted my entire Vista partition and reinstalled it with no issues at all.. didn't have to wipe everything. Are you doing something different than I? I also deleted the EFI partition... didn't affect anything.

http://www.poeticfolly.com/drop/vista_book.jpg

Ah, I got it. Thanks for responding David. I just had to turn off that new "tablet" option for mouse grabbing. After that, it worked great. No sound, though, and slow as Christmas. I'll give Vista a go when my Beta CD arrives.

#21: I didn't mean it would be useful to *you* specifically, I was simply trying to thwart the legions of "BUT WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT SOMETHING AS STUPID AS WINDOWS ON THEIR MAC!!!" dimwits that never fail in posting crap like that.

Running Windows on a Mac, either in virtualization or in Boot Camp, is helpful to the large number of Mac users out there who want to own one machine but *must* live in both (or all three) worlds for one reason or another. Web designers, physicists, lawyers, software testers - countless professions and practices that *need* software that simply isn't made for a Mac.

Now, with tools like Parallels and Q, those people don't need to worry about having to own and/or lug around more than one machine. They can test their websites and run their software all in one place. That's a revolution in and of itself for *those* people, not necessarily you. If you don't have a use for it, then great. Consider yourself lucky. For other people - this stuff is a godsend.

#22: In all honesty, I installed Ubuntu in Q just to make sure it worked for this post, but I didn't even start it up to run it. I finished the install (which took a surprisingly long time) and simply shut the machine down. As I remember, the mouse was working fine; I'm using a 15" MacBook Pro.