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

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.

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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.
> > 
> 
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