[AccessD] OT: Virtual PC 2007

Well I just ran into my first gotcha.  Both virtual machine managers (VPC
and VMX) use virtual video cards, neither of which emulate 3d.  My 6 year
old son Robbie and I are both huge fans of MorrowWind (yes, he plays by
himself) and it requires 3d hardware.  And of course it took me awhile to
discover the issue as the game gave no meaningful error message when it
aborted while opening.

Sigh.


John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com
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Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 9:04 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Virtual PC 2007

On 5/19/07, Shamil Salakhetdinov <shamil at users.mns.ru> wrote:

> Did anybody try VMWare? After MS went free with Virtual PC VMWare did 
> also release some free products - and what these products allow to do 
> look very powerful and useful:

Yep. I use VMWare.

I started with VMWare Workstation to create a server that is identical to
DBAs server so that I could test things out there before working on the real
server.

Its a wonderful tool.

Ever since VMWare player came out, I've been running the VM in player and
not the full blown workstation, and it works incredibly well.

I have tried MS Virtual PC and don't like it as much. It much more of a
resource hog than VMWare, IME.

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