[AccessD] Using a VM/VPC

I use VMWare and am neutral on recommending it.  It works well, is easy to set up.  My biggest issue 
was a huge problem getting the VMs to attach to the physical NIC when using Hamachi.  For whatever 
reason the host software (which controls the NIC bindings) gravitate towards the Hamachi NICS.  It 
is a not well known phenomenon which took me ages to figure out.

Other than that, I use them still and recommend VMs in general.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Max Wanadoo wrote:
> Thanks Guys,
> Now, given that I will try the VM route to save having the problems that
> Susan mentions.
> 
> Which VM?
> Sun
> MS
> The other
> 
> ??
> 
> Max
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
> Sent: 26 July 2009 18:39
> 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!
>