[AccessD] OT: Virtual PC 2007

When you say "as a gaming PC" what do you mean?  In MS' VPC, the video is an
emulation of a 2D S3 graphics card, which simply will not run modern 3D
games (specifically MorrowWind).  I understand that VMWare also does a
software emulation, and the common consensus is that a software emulation of
a 3D processor is too expensive to do (processor cycles).  

Are you playing modern games?

BTW, early this morning I made a "capture" or whatever they call it of one
of my 2003 servers, but I have not yet mounted and played with it.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com
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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Francisco Tapia
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 2:57 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [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. :).