Brad Marks
BradM at blackforestltd.com
Fri Jan 24 14:40:06 CST 2014
All, With the recent discussion of VirtualBox, I would like to ask a dumb question. My background is with IBM Mainframes starting in 1975. We used several versions of IBM's "VM", so I understand the advantages, costs, etc. I now am semi-retired and work part-time for a small firm. This firm has two older Dell PowerEdge Z900s. These two boxes were brought in long before I started work with this firm. It is my understanding that they started with one Z900 and added a second one when more horsepower was needed. Both boxes use Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Because of the age of these two boxes, initial work has been started to obtain proposals to replace the two old PowerEdge servers. The first proposal includes a single HP Server with VMWare. Because both existing servers are running the same OS, I don't understand the advantages of bringing in VMWare. It seems to me that this would be adding another layer of complexity and some additional costs. Perhaps I am missing something. Thanks, Brad -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Steele Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 7:53 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] VirtualBox The IP address 169.254.133.152, or one like it, is one that I've seen in the past when my computer couldn't connect to anything. Here's a snippet I found on Google (most of it was in Japanese!): Computers use addresses starting with "169.254." when they do not have a manually configured address or when they are not told which address to use by a service on the network. They are commonly called the "link local" addresses. On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi Rocky: > > I thought you had resolved the problem as soon as you had a legitimate > IP address. From then on it should be just easy to modify your > required address. An IP address would not have appeared if it did not > find the network card. The IP address appeared to be the address of > your ISP, taken from your router. > > If you want a new address, I would just goes into OS network setting > change it, reboot and/or at the command prompt enter something like: > ipconfig /release & ipconfig /renew > > Or are there more issues? > > Have you ask your son yet? ;-)... If I run into problems I may pose it > to one of my daughters or SiL. > > Jim > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> > To: "List" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>, "Off Topic" < > dba-ot at databaseadvisors.com>, "Access Developers discussion and > problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 12:43:52 PM > Subject: Re: [AccessD] VirtualBox > > OK - I'm frustrated with Virtual Box. Any opinions on VM Ware or > Windows Virtual PC as an alternative? > > TIA > > Rocky' > > > _____ > > From: Rocky Smolin [mailto:rockysmolin at bchacc.com] > Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 10:54 PM > To: List (dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com); 'Off Topic' > Subject: VirtualBox > > > Dear List: > > I need to set up two virtual machines - one Office 2010 pro, one > Office > 2013 > pro, for testing. I used Oracle's VM Virtual Box to create a 2007 machine. > But I cannot remember how I got it to 'see' the DVD drive on my comp - > the host. Obviously, I did it because I set up a virtual machine with > Office 2007, but dipped if I can remember how and get it done for 2010 and 2013. > > Can someone give me a lead on this? > > MTIA > > Rocky > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- This message was scanned by ESVA and is believed to be clean. Click here to report this message as spam. http://h0stname/cgi-bin/learn-msg.cgi?id=5E70128928.2A827