[AccessD] VM dev machines

Hi John,

I use VMs for hosting the different versions of Office and to set up
Client/Server pairs if I have a client app that runs agains a server
backend. I use Vmware Workstation which allows you to set up Teams. In my
case a Team consists of the client app development environment and the
Server side on another machine. When you open a team they both fire up with
network connections in place. For one situation I have SQL server 2000
running on Windows Server 2003 (which is the Clients set up) and the Front
end running on Windows XP with Office 2007. I really like this capability. I
probably have 10 different VMs, any of which can be cloned to create a test
environment or some unique setup. This has been really powerfull for our
situation. 

We sell 2 runtime products built in Access. I have virtual machines set up
with different combinations of clean OS's and OS's with different versions
of Office on them to test our installations on. VMs have been very
productive for me.

With all the discussion of Lightswitch I am thinking of building a Windows 7
VM to put Lightswitch and Razon on. 

Doug

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Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 2:57 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving; VBA
Subject: [AccessD] VM dev machines

Is anyone doing development primarily in a virtual machine? Anyone using VMs
to test against specific environments - Windows XP, Office 2000 etc?

I have a dual core Dell laptop that is beginning to feel long in the tooth,
though it is less than 3 years old.  I think it is just the old "too much
crap" syndrome, but I am wondering if I could move into a VM, perhaps using
XP as the OS and even though it would only use one of the cores, it might
just be more responsive.  Or maybe not.

I do know that a new laptop is not in the cards any time soon.

--
John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com
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