[AccessD] William Hindman (Re: Visual Basic 2008 Express&VB.NET)

Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Sat Mar 14 18:22:43 CDT 2009


I put VPC on a Vista machine. I find that the virtual machines take a big
performance hit - run and respond visibly slower than native mode.  Do you
find that as well?



Rocky Smolin
Beach Access Software
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-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 4:19 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] William Hindman (Re: Visual Basic 2008
Express&VB.NET)

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
> >>
> 
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