Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sat Oct 1 15:55:58 CDT 2011
I've been running different versions of Access in VirtualBox VMs on my laptop for a couple of years with no problems. (Intel 2,4GB Core2 Duo, 4GM Ram, , 320GB partitioned into 22 drives, Vista) -- Stuart On 1 Oct 2011 at 11:13, jwcolby wrote: > > As for the "why no dedicated virtual machine", well it has to do with > I run off of a laptop which is supposed to be portable. VMs, at least > on my server are... well... on my server. While I experimented with > running them on my laptop they tend to be large-ish and take up disk > space. Until this point, my laptop disks were not really big enough > to support virtual machines. Plus a laptop by its nature does not > have the most powerful / speedy processor chips. > > The new disk is 500 gigs, which I broke into 100g for the boot and 400 > for the data. I intend to reassess the reality of VMs nw that I have > this much storage. > > In the meantime, the billing program is broken. > > I am going to try running it directly in Access 2010 and see if that > works. If so it will provide the imputus to make the switch and learn > the (*&%^%$#$#! toolbar interface. If it still does not work I will > remove Office 2010 entirely. It appears that it has to do with having > both 2003 and 2010 installed at the same time. Maybe. > > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > > > On 10/1/2011 10:35 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote: > > I have no solutions for you. But IIRC, you're the guy with RAM and > > SSHDs to die for, so why aren't you using all your spiffy hardware > > and software to create some VMs and do this in-situ, as it were? And > > further, why don't you have one box dedicated to "meat and > > potatoes", and everything else located elsewhere? > > > > My close friend Peter Simpson has a pretty cool hardware setup which > > I envy. I cannot describe the HW details but the essence is this. He > > has five or six boxes and one keyboard and monitor and mouse, and by > > flicking a switch, he suddenly moves from Box 1 to Box 2 etc. One > > box runs Win7, another wXP, another Ubuntu, another RedHat, and yet > > another Solaris. > > > > Someday soon I shall waterboard him for all the details on how to > > set this up, but at the moment it's a total mystery to me. I just > > watch him press some magic keystrokes and then suddenly he's in > > another box, and I don't mean VM, I mean another physical box. > > > > I feel that I can no longer keep up with the rapidly-changing > > technology. I think I'm too old for this career-path. China plans to > > overtake USA in space-launches. Good thing I'm learning Mandarin > > (and am actually getting pretty adept; well no, let's settle for "I > > have the basics", and Cantonese is a way tougher nut to crack, but > > I'm working on it). > > > > A. > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >