[AccessD] Using a VM/VPC (was: Office 2003 and 2007)

Thanks Stuart - sounds pretty easy!

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 12:39 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using a VM/VPC (was: Office 2003 and 2007)

Each Virtual Machine consists of two components - 

A folder containing a collection of which make up the machine itself.
A large file with as .vdi extension which is a virtual disk ( can be more
thanoone if you want 
to set up multiple disks on the machine).

You don't touch your partitions or instal additional OSs on the parent
system.


The steps to creating a VM once you have installed VirtualBox are ( all
wizard driven):

1.  Create the machine after specifying a few parameters
2.  Specify the desired size of the virtual disk and create it.
3.  Insert an OS instal disk in your CD Drive or select an ISO image of one
on your PC 
4.  Instal the OS on the Virtual Disk

Voila!

-- 
Stuart

On 26 Jul 2009 at 11:19, Dan Waters wrote:
...
> 
> For each PC, do you need to set up another OS within the partition?  Can
you
> use the same one?  Does VirtualBox have a method to create the partition
> without having to reformat your existing C Drive?
> 
> Thanks!
> Dan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 10:43 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Office 2003 and 2007
> 
> Susan,
> 
> As pointed out by others in this thread, the sure-fire solution is using a
> virtual machine. My choice happens to be Sun's VirtualBox, just because I
> wanted to do some Ruby On Rails coding.
> 

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