Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Sat Nov 12 12:35:30 CST 2011
I'm afraid that I can't help you in this endeavour, John. It seems that Oracle VirtualBox doesn't have the ability to inhale VMs from other sources (I could be wrong, but if so, haven't yet figured out how to do it.) What I do instead (in VirtualBox) is create a new VM, loading a CD with the downloaded OS, and after that, VirtualBox takes care of everything: mounts the OS, installs it as a VM, allocates the default space with Grow, etc.) Allegedly there is a way to use MS VM images, but I haven't got that far yet On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:47 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote: > Arthur, > > Do you have a Linux distro that runs in a Hyper-V vm. Yea I know Hyper-V > is MS but I made a switch to Hyper-V and it would be very disruptive to > switch back. But I would like to get a vm up and running so I could play > in MariaDB. > > Are there encapsulated VMs that I can just download and start as VMs in > Hyper-V? I tried to get two different DISTROs running and failed both > times. > > > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > > Reality is what refuses to go away > when you do not believe in it > > On 11/12/2011 11:11 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote: > >> I have moved to MySQL for medium-to-large DBs and to SQLite for small DBs. >> See ya, BillG and SteveB. I'm gone, reluctantly so, since I have spent the >> last dozen or so years mastering MS-SQL, which I now realize was a >> complete >> waste of time and energy. From now on, I'm going open-source solutions, >> and >> I'm about to bolt from the whole Windows "solution" in favour of Ubuntu >> and|or Mint (a fork from Ubuntu). Currently I run both these OSs as VMs >> inside Oracle/Sun VirtualBox. but I am about to flip the whole system so >> the basic boot is into Ubuntu and any Windows/Access sessions will be >> dealt >> with in a VM. >> >> So long, Steve and Bill. It's been a slice, but I'm done with you guys. >> You >> don't make life better; you only make it more expensive. And as a >> semi-retired person, expenses matter significantly.I just calculated >> December and realized that at the end of the day (after rent, hydro, net >> connection etc.) I have a whopping $15 left for the whole month of >> December. Wow. Party hearty. >> >> Not that I'm complaining. Were it not for our alleged socialist >> government, >> I wouldn't receive so much as a dime; so I count myself in the set of >> Lucky >> MoFus. >> >> Arthur >> >> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Mark Simms<marksimms at verizon.net> >> wrote: >> >> John - I think it's a poor strategy on Microsoft's part. >>> IMHO: They should position themselves price-wise BETWEEN the >>> ever-so-expensive Oracle and the ever-so-cheap MySQL. >>> Instead, they appear to be moving towards trying to compete with >>> Oracle... >>> This is so "Balmer-like". >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: accessd-bounces@**databaseadvisors.com<accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com>[mailto: >>>> accessd- >>>> bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby >>>> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 9:27 AM >>>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving; Sqlserver-Dba >>>> Subject: [AccessD] New SQL Server license scheme is RADICALLLY more >>>> expensive >>>> >>>> http://sqlserverperformance.**wordpress.com/2011/11/10/sql-** >>>> server-2012-<http://sqlserverperformance.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/sql-server-2012-> >>>> licensing-and-hardware-**considerations/ >>>> >>>> The full retail license cost per physical core is $6874.00 for SQL >>>> Server 2012 Enterprise Edition. >>>> >>>> I cannot imagine that there will not be a huge backlash about this from >>>> clients and massive >>>> switching to MySQL and the likes. >>>> >>>> I know that I will never purchase SQL Server 2010. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> John W. Colby >>>> Colby Consulting >>>> >>>> Reality is what refuses to go away >>>> when you do not believe in it >>>> -- >>>> AccessD mailing list >>>> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >>>> http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/accessd<http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd> >>>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> AccessD mailing list >>> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/accessd<http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd> >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/accessd<http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd> > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> > -- Cell: 647.710.1314 Thirty spokes converge on a hub but it's the emptiness that makes a wheel work -- from the Daodejing