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

I use Virtual PC and Virtual Server.  But I think all the Virtual
'environments' work on the same general principles.  Your virtual
machine's hard drive is a file.  So it won't interrupt the host
environment at all.

Drew

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Dan Waters
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 11:19 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using a VM/VPC (was: Office 2003 and 2007)

Hi Arthur,

I'm going to be doing the same thing soon with Office 2003/2007.

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

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[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.

Lately I run VirtualBox on both my 64-bit dual Athlon and on my Lenovo
notebook. Both machines have 3 GB of RAM and it works splendidly. So I
have
a VM on both boxes that is dedicated to O2K7 and another dedicated to
O2K3.
For my needs, it's the perfect solution.

Arthur
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