[AccessD] 2007 over 2003

Rocky,

Where they come in handy is that they can be "played" anywhere.  Take the virtual machine, place it 
on a usb hard drive and it can be used on your laptop, attached to your desktop, at a friends house 
etc.  Of course you have to have the "player" installed on the host machine but the ability to move 
the vm can be a godsend.

As I mentioned previously I use a specific program to do address validation for a client.  I do so 
much of this and it takes so long, that I have a server pretty much dedicated to that purpose. 
But... the license is machine specific.  So over the years, as I upgraded machines to make them 
faster, I would be moving the software from machine to machine.  A royal PITA because I would have 
to call tech support, actually talk to someone there, read them a new string of characters for a 
specific machine config, and get a new key.  Same drill again if I needed to move the software again 
(which I did many times in several years).

One day it occurred to me... place it in a VM and just move the vm to the faster machine.  Voila, 
PITA GONE!!!

Furthermore I was talking to the software developer about how long it takes to run my huge address 
lists and he mentioned that I could install the software multiple times on the same machine. 
Hmmm....  Copy my VM three times, run it on the same (physical) machine... license issues obeyed, 
multiple installs on the same (physical) "machine".

The VM just solved two HUGE issues I was having... moving the installed software as my hardware 
changed, and legally running the software several times on the same machine.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Rocky Smolin wrote:
> I implemented VPC on my Vista box.  It was OK.  Didn't really float my boat.
> But it was dead simple.
> 
> Rocky
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 2:48 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] 2007 over 2003
> 
> Easy to say Arthur, not so easy to do when new to VMs.
> 
> You are of course correct in your statement.  And once you are up on VMs it
> is a huge tool.
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> 
> Arthur Fuller wrote:
>> Forget about this path, my friend, and instead go with a VM manager of 
>> your choice. Trusting MS to take care of these problems is IMO 
>> seppuku. Do not go there! Create a VM for every version of everything 
>> you want to run, and proceed from there. Isolated spaces = no brain-drain.
>>
>> A.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Rocky Smolin
> <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>wrote:
>>> Yeah, I saw that so I uninstalled 2003 and then the 2007 installation 
>>> went OK.  So now I'm going to try to install 2003 AFTER 2007 and see 
>>> if I can get away with that.
>>>
>>> Anther forum had a reference to O2003 SP2 installation doing away 
>>> with the hidden cab files.
>>>
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