[AccessD] OT: Virtual PC 2007

woo hoo John, :)
          Welcome to the world of virtualization... :).  There is literally
a free-ing experience when you move to virtual machines (in your case vpc).
I don't remember the cause for USB support in VPC, but in VMware you are
able to use USB 1.1 in Vmware workstation 5 and USB 2.0 in VMware 6.  They
also give you a "free" VMware Server that you can use on your server apps to
run other servers or windows xp/linux etc machines.

VMware doesn't give away the workstation for free, bu they do offer a VMware
Converter product that allows you convert existing pc's into VM's  I've used
it well with great sucess although for XP you have to go through the whole
re-activation process :S arg.  other than that minor hiccup, it works
extreamly well!

While I also tried VPC from MS, I found that you must absolutly install the
SPs before it runs halfway decently.  Also I found that if you want to run
VServer and want to automate the shutdown process for backups etc, it's much
more cumbersome than in VMware where it's a single line batch file :).

btw, it is worth looking into Vmware 6.  It's paid off for me already w/
dual monitor support, usb2 and some 3d support, it works out really well as
a gaming pc for my daughter (3yrs old) and me. :).






On 5/19/07, Shamil Salakhetdinov <shamil at users.mns.ru> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> 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:
>
> http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
> http://www.vmware.com/products/server/
>
> with a lot of preconfigured free systems one can use:
>
> http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/
>
> I didn't try them yet but I plan to...
>
> --
> Shamil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 12:56 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Virtual PC 2007
>
> Hi John:
>
> Just love those virtual PCs... currently running/have saved versions with
> Vista/2 Linuxes/Windows98/Windows2000,XP all with various configurations.
> Just port them and can test and support a variety of clients.
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 7:50 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: [AccessD] OT: Virtual PC 2007
>
> I just wanted to report that I have spent most of the day getting virtual
> PC
> 2007 installed and a virtual PC XP Pro functioning on one of my windows
> 2003
> servers.  I am installing everything imaginable on the system, and will
> then
> make copies to actually run on.  Got PC XP Pro installed, SP2, all the
> updates, Office 2003, WinZip, Adobe Reader, 3DFTP, Comodo Firewall, etc.
>
> It is all running very well.  It took a little while to figure out, for
> example no USB drives at all apparently, but you can drag and drop a
> directory from the host to the virtual PC so I just plug the usb drive in
> to
> the host and then drag n drop what I need off the drive onto the virtual
> pc.
>
> I made the virtual pc a 256 mb machine with a 30gb hard drive.  For
> ordinary
> office / browsing it seems to be sufficient.  What I am considering doing
> is
> dragging a copy off onto my new laptops when they arrive.  It is
> definitely
> cool to be able to set up a machine, then just drag an image over to
> another
> machine, install Virtual PC 2007 and fire it up and have everything
> "instantly installed".  Of course 30g doesn't just drag instantly, it will
> definitely take 10 minutes or so.
>
> My wife's laptop died and she has been sharing my PC since.  Then my
> laptop
> died.  I think I will make a copy of the new virtual machine on one of the
> servers, run it, make her a mcolby user as she had on her old machine,
> install her old Outlook PST file and all her My Documents stuff and have
> her
> up and running in her own virtual machine.
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
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