Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sun Mar 15 02:47:09 CDT 2009
Not very easy at all. It would be like trying to put your boot drive in a different PC with a different BIOS and different graphics, audio, networking hardware etc. You'd get all sorts of hardware conflicts. If you could get it working, Windows would then probably decide that you were running a pirate copy because of all the hardware changes. Just look at it as an opportunity to clean all the crud out of your current system - you know, all those programs you've installed and since removed but which have left bits of themselves bloating your registry, cluttering up your hard drive and generally slowing your system down. The great thing is that you once you have a couple of VMs set up the way you want you won't have that problem in the future. -- Stuart On 15 Mar 2009 at 6:28, Max Wanadoo wrote: > Here is a stupid question so apologies: > > When I install my Virtual bits, can I then, somehow, create an image from my > physical system (maybe as an ISO) and move that to the virtual machine so > that I dont have to reinstall everything? If so, how? > > Thanks > > Max > > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 4:24 AM, William Hindman < > wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com> wrote: > > > ...yes ...but its pretty simple to do since you can copy to/from a local > > disk ...and the expiration dates have so far not been rigorously enforced > > ...the copy of xp/vista is pre-activated and won't run outside the vpc > > environment. > > > > William > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> > > Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 9:36 PM > > To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" > > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > > Subject: Re: [AccessD] William Hindman (Re: Visual Basic 2008 > > Express&VB.NET) > > > > > How do they renew. > > > > > > Do you have to download a new image and transfer all you settings/data > > > etc to the new one? > > > > > > -- > > > Stuart > > > > > > On 14 Mar 2009 at 21:28, William Hindman wrote: > > > > > >> ...yes but as I said previously, they've renewed it every time for more > > >> than > > >> a year now and almost certainly will continue to do so since you still > > >> can't > > >> install more than one version of ie. > > >> > > >> William > > >> > > >> -------------------------------------------------- > > >> From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> > > >> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 9:18 PM > > >> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" > > >> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > > >> Subject: Re: [AccessD] William Hindman (Re: Visual Basic 2008 > > >> Express&VB.NET) > > >> > > >> >>From that link: > > >> > "This VPC image will expire in April 2009." > > >> > > > >> > If you do want to use it however, note the following from VirtualBox > > >> > Help: > > >> > "Finally, VirtualBox also fully supports the VHD format used by > > >> > Microsoft" > > >> > > > >> > Cheers, > > >> > Stuart > > >> > > > >> > On 14 Mar 2009 at 20:10, William Hindman wrote: > > >> > > > >> >> ...been that way for more than a year ...there is a separate link to > > >> >> dl > > >> >> the > > >> >> right vhd > > >> >> > > >> >> > > http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en > > >> >> > > >> >> ...the secret to this is that ms is providing a vhd with win xp or > > >> >> vista > > >> >> AND > > >> >> ie6, 7, or 8 now to web developers to allow testing > > >> >> against multiple browser environments ...since you can't run more > > than > > >> >> one > > >> >> version of ie on the same system. they came > > >> >> up with this backdoor ...but the bottom line is that its a fully > > >> >> functional > > >> >> vhd with the os and ie already installed and you can use > > >> >> it for whatever you please ...and anyone can dl and use it if they > > >> >> know > > >> >> where to look. > > >> >> > > >> >> ...and of course ms isn't broadcasting this everywhere ...you only > > >> >> find > > >> >> it > > >> >> by looking for ways to test both versions of ie on your system :) > > >> >> ...not a word or link to this on either the vpc or their regular vhd > > >> >> site > > >> >> :) > > >> >> > > >> >> William > > >> >> > > >> >> -------------------------------------------------- > > >> >> From: "Steve Erbach" <erbachs at gmail.com> > > >> >> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 1:54 PM > > >> >> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" > > >> >> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > > >> >> Subject: Re: [AccessD] William Hindman (Re: Visual Basic 2008 > > >> >> Express&VB.NET) > > >> >> > > >> >> > William, > > >> >> > > > >> >> > Interesting. Is that a recent promotion? When I downloaded VPC > > >> >> > last > > >> >> > year there wasn't any OS that came with it. > > >> >> > > > >> >> > Steve Erbach > > >> >> > Neenah, WI > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > > >> >> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:44 AM, William Hindman > > >> >> > <wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com> wrote: > > >> >> >> ...its free ...and it comes with a vhd with win xp or vista > > already > > >> >> >> installed so you don't have to buy another copy ...the free os is > > a > > >> >> >> limited > > >> >> >> time but they've renewed it every time it was about to expire so > > >> >> >> far. > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> William > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- > > >> >> >> From: "Max Wanadoo" <max.wanadoo at gmail.com> > > >> >> >> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 9:57 AM > > >> >> >> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" > > >> >> >> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > > >> >> >> Subject: Re: [AccessD] William Hindman (Re: Visual Basic 2008 > > >> >> >> Express&VB.NET) > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >>> 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 > > >> > > > >> > > >> -- > > >> 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 > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com