[AccessD] Sun Virtual PC

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sat Mar 14 20:22:35 CDT 2009


Yes.

Select a Powered-Off machine, click on Settings  and it's a slider on the General- Basic tab.

You can change just about anything on a virtual machine when it is powered off,  except the 
size of disks.
While you can't change disk sizes, you can swap disks around between machines.

-- 
Stuart

On 14 Mar 2009 at 17:39, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access  wrote:

> Can you change the ram size after the vm is created? 
> 
> 
> Rocky Smolin
> Beach Access Software
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>  
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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 4:34 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Sun Virtual PC
> 
> When you set up your first VMs the wizard is fairly straight forward.
> 
> Give your machiine plenty of RAM, you can always reduce it later.
> Create a dynamically expanding boot disk and set it's size bigger that you
> think will need.
> (I generally set mine to 30GB - you can always add additional disks later)
> 
> Be sure to install the "guest additions"
> 
> Play around with the CD/DVD, USB, Network settings etc to get familiar with
> them.
> 
> Cheers,
> Stuart
> 
> On 14 Mar 2009 at 14:42, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> 
> > I decided to check this stuff out and have just downloaded it and am 
> > about to install. My native OS is Vista with SP1. I'd like to be able 
> > to create an XP and a Linux box minimum, and perhaps a Geos one as well.
> > 
> > Anything I should know before diving in?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Arthur
> > 
> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Steve Erbach <erbachs at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Max,
> > >
> > > I've got the Sun VirtualBox stuff, too, to run Ubuntu as a virtual 
> > > machine.  To install it I downloaded the Ubuntu package as an ISO 
> > > file.  Thus I could attach to that file as a virtual CD drive to 
> > > install Ubuntu on the virtual pc.  Worked flawlessly.  I haven't 
> > > been able to figure out yet how to get more than 800x600 resolution, 
> > > but that's small change that I can no doubt figure out when I have 
> > > an extra afternoon sometime.
> > >
> > > Is this what you're trying to do?  Install an operating system on 
> > > your virtual pc?
> > >
> > > Steve Erbach
> > > Neenah, WI
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Max Wanadoo 
> > > <max.wanadoo at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi Stu,
> > > > Hope you are well.
> > > > I installed the sun VP but when I run it it opens the window, 
> > > > gives some info about the Host Key which I then close.  It then 
> > > > displays a black command type window with the message "FATAL: No
> bootable mediaum found!
> > > > System Halted.
> > > >
> > > > I have rebooted my PC which is stripped naked.  Brand new 
> > > > installation of XP.  Then AVG anti virus  followed by Office 2003 
> > > > - all updated with
> > > latest
> > > > updates.  Then web dev express form MS downloaded and installed - 
> > > > all ok except for the light thingy.  Then installed Firefox 3.  
> > > > Then Sun VP.  So
> > > as
> > > > you can see, not much to go wrong.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas?
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