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

Also, If anybody has time to look at these two references contained in the
wikepedia I would be grateful.
I don't know enough about VM to make a judgement.
Thanks
Max


On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Max Wanadoo <max.wanadoo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> > >
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