Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sat Mar 14 18:19:05 CDT 2009
Hi Steve, I'm running installations of XP and Server 2000/2003 on my Vista laptop as different development and testing environments. In addition to my bare bones image which I just use for cloning, I have machines with Office 2K, 2K3, 2K7 and SQL Server 2K and 2K3 plus a machine with Visual Studio and no office suite of any sort and one with SQL Server and an SMS Server. I really should set up a machine with Office 97 because I have a client still using a whole bunch of Access 97 apps. I should also set up a Vista VM and one of these days I will get around to setting up an Ubuntu to play with :-) I don't know about Linux, but the screen resolutions on my Windows machines are dynamic. As I resize the VM's window, the resolution changes> However at times te OS gets confused and reports the wromg numbers for resolution in the Desktop - Properties - Adavanced window. On 14 Mar 2009 at 12:58, Steve Erbach wrote: > Stuart, > > I have to admit that installing Ubuntu on VirtualBox was a breeze. I > can't get better than 800x600 resolution yet, but I think that's > mainly because I've forgotten everything I ever knew about Linux. I'd > installed Red Hat 5.x in '99 on a laptop that had Windows 95B already > on it. And I installed Corel Linux on a Windows 2000 desktop while > Corel was interested in Linux there for a while back in '00 or '01 or > so. This is my 3rd time around with Linux. Just don't have a lot of > time for it... > > So, you've installed XP or Vista on VirtualBox? > > Steve Erbach > Neenah, WI > > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Stuart McLachlan > <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote: > > I use and strongly recommend Sun VirtualBox. > > http://www.virtualbox.org/ > > > > It comes either as Open Source under a GNU GPL licence or closed source under a > > "VirtualBox Personal Use and Evaluation License" . > > > > The Personal Use clause is very open: > > "Personal Use" requires that you use the Product on the same Host Computer where you > > installed it yourself and that no more than one client connect to that Host Computer at a > > time for the purpose of displaying Guest Computers remotely." > > > > The closed source version is definitely the one to get, because of its additonal features. > > > > >From reviews on the web, VirtualBox seems to be a better product in a number of ways and > > it is under constant development - they come up with a new version about once a month.. > > > > > > Cheers, > > Stuart > > > > On 14 Mar 2009 at 13:57, Max Wanadoo wrote: > > > >> William, > >> Is virtual PC 2007 from Microsoft free or not. The site says "free download" > >> but it is unclear whether that means that after installing it, I then get > >> only xyz days to use it. > >> > >> If not free, what would you recommend? > >> > >> Thanks > >> Max > >> > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >