[dba-Tech] VirtualBox

John Bartow jbartow at winhaven.net
Tue Jan 21 11:24:58 CST 2014


Best way to do it. Otherwise you'll eventually go nuts proofing your apps
against each combination of Windows/Office versions.

I keep a clean copy of each OS and then duplicate it and add the various
versions of office or other apps as needed. It's a good thing hard drives
are so big and cheap now.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 9:02 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] VirtualBox

I found it - well Bartow told me the secret.  I'm putting up O2007, O2010,
and O2013 VMs to support the different versions.   

R


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 1:16 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] VirtualBox

Rocky,

I don't remember percisely where, but it's on the VirtualBox menu near where
the USB connections are.

Arthur


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>wrote:

> Dear List:
>
> I need to set up two virtual machines - one Office 2010 pro, one 
> Office
> 2013
> pro, for testing.  I used Oracle's VM Virtual Box to create a 2007
machine.
> But I cannot remember how I got it to 'see' the DVD drive on my comp - 
> the host.  Obviously, I did it because I set up a virtual machine with 
> Office 2007, but dipped if I can remember how and get it done for 2010 
> and
2013.
>
> Can someone give me a lead on this?
>
> MTIA
>
> Rocky
>
>
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