William Hindman
wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com
Sat Mar 14 19:14:27 CDT 2009
...the default install only makes 512k of ram available to the vpc ...if you're running vista in it or heavy graphics you have to give it more resources. William -------------------------------------------------- From: "Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 7:22 PM To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: Re: [AccessD] William Hindman (Re: Visual Basic 2008 Express&VB.NET) > I put VPC on a Vista machine. I find that the virtual machines take a big > performance hit - run and respond visibly slower than native mode. Do you > find that as well? > > > > Rocky Smolin > Beach Access Software > 858-259-4334 > www.e-z-mrp.com > www.bchacc.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart > McLachlan > Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 4:19 PM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] William Hindman (Re: Visual Basic 2008 > Express&VB.NET) > > Hi Steve, > > I'm running installations of XP and Server 2000/2003 on my Vista laptop > as > different development and testing environments. > > In addition to my bare bones image which I just use for cloning, I have > machines with Office 2K, 2K3, 2K7 and SQL Server 2K and 2K3 plus a > machine > with Visual Studio and no office suite of any sort and one with SQL Server > and an SMS Server. > > I really should set up a machine with Office 97 because I have a client > still using a whole bunch of Access 97 apps. I should also set up a Vista > VM and one of these days I will get around to setting up an Ubuntu to play > with :-) > > I don't know about Linux, but the screen resolutions on my Windows > machines > are dynamic. > As I resize the VM's window, the resolution changes> However at times te > OS > gets confused and reports the wromg numbers for resolution in the > Desktop - > Properties - Adavanced window. > > > On 14 Mar 2009 at 12:58, Steve Erbach wrote: > >> Stuart, >> >> I have to admit that installing Ubuntu on VirtualBox was a breeze. I >> can't get better than 800x600 resolution yet, but I think that's >> mainly because I've forgotten everything I ever knew about Linux. I'd >> installed Red Hat 5.x in '99 on a laptop that had Windows 95B already >> on it. And I installed Corel Linux on a Windows 2000 desktop while >> Corel was interested in Linux there for a while back in '00 or '01 or >> so. This is my 3rd time around with Linux. Just don't have a lot of >> time for it... >> >> So, you've installed XP or Vista on VirtualBox? >> >> Steve Erbach >> Neenah, WI >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Stuart McLachlan >> <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote: >> > I use and strongly recommend Sun VirtualBox. >> > http://www.virtualbox.org/ >> > >> > It comes either as Open Source under a GNU GPL licence or closed >> > source under a "VirtualBox Personal Use and Evaluation License" . >> > >> > The Personal Use clause is very open: >> > "Personal Use" requires that you use the Product on the same Host >> > Computer where you installed it yourself and that no more than one >> > client connect to that Host Computer at a time for the purpose of > displaying Guest Computers remotely." >> > >> > The closed source version is definitely the one to get, because of its > additonal features. >> > >> > >From reviews on the web, VirtualBox seems to be a better product in >> > >a number of ways and >> > it is under constant development - they come up with a new version >> > about > once a month.. >> > >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Stuart >> > >> > On 14 Mar 2009 at 13:57, Max Wanadoo wrote: >> > >> >> William, >> >> Is virtual PC 2007 from Microsoft free or not. The site says "free > download" >> >> but it is unclear whether that means that after installing it, I >> >> then get only xyz days to use it. >> >> >> >> If not free, what would you recommend? >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> Max >> >> >> >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> > > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >