Max Wanadoo
max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Mon Jul 27 02:08:58 CDT 2009
Any idea of what percentage of memory I should allocate to the VM systems? Thanks Max -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: 26 July 2009 22:43 To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using a VM/VPC (was: Office 2003 and 2007) Personally I favour Sun VirtualBox. -- Stuart On 26 Jul 2009 at 20:18, 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! > > -- > 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. > > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com