[AccessD] OT: Virtual PC 2007

Well, I haven't tried an expensive GPU intensive game on it yet, I will load
GTA San Andreas to see how it performs.  Up until now it's been a gaming
machine for my daughter's games, there is a 3D teletubies and 3D Thomas the
tank engine which both run Directx7.  Vmware 6 supports some though not all
of Window Vista's Aero GUI.  From what I read is that they will be
supporting the full aero gui with an update release.

On 5/21/07, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> -----Original Message-----
> 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. :).
>
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