[dba-Tech] VirtualPC??

Hello Gustav,

Thanks for that, I have not looked at it yet, but it sounds great, to be
able to download preloaded machines.

Mark




On 12/14/05, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:
>
> Hi Mark and Francisco
>
> Also, note that you now can get the VMware Player for free:
>
> http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
>
> It's available for Windows or Linux.
> A nice list of "machines" are ready for download (no Windows though). Free
> as well.
>
> /gustav
>
> >>> marklbreen at gmail.com 13-12-2005 22:49:51 >>>
> Hello Francisco,
>
> I have been using it for at least a year now, and I find it great.
>
> For me, it has installed first time, every time and and I have always
> immediately installed the sp1 right away.  After that, I mount an ISO
> image
> and reboot the virtual machine and it just installs the new machine, I
> have
> created Win XP, Win2K with no problems at all.
>
> Once I get a machine set up, I then save it as a read only machine and
> then
> copy that folder and make new machines that I can play with and then
> trash.
> I have successfully .Net 2003 and 2005 and SQL 2000 and SQL 2005.  All
> with
> no errors even.
>
> Finally, I always Remote Desktop into it rather than attempting to use is
> as
> a Window.  The Remote Desktop connection makes the virtual machine seem
> like
> it is a real machine, sometimes I have to check the IP address to remind
> myself.
>
> Thanks another thing, I always explicitly set the IP address of the V PC
> and
> change the machine name to reflect the IP address, so it is easy to
> identify
> which machines you are in.
>
> The V machines can be a bit slow, but I do not mind that, once they are up
> and running they are fine.
>
> It is better to have 1 GB or more in the base machine, so you can allocate
> 512 to the V machine and the same to your host machine.  On my desktop, I
> have 2 gb and it does not seem to be much better than the home machine I
> have with only 1 gb.
>
> Oh, and you might find that you need plenty of storage also, for when you
> have a few machines running :)
>
> I have not played with Virtual Server yet, but have been meaning to.
>
> Best of luck with it, it is surely the most convenient way to play with
> software, as I write this I am in the process of installing Commerce
> Server
> on a V machine.
>
> Hello to any old friends on the list.
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 12/8/05, Francisco Tapia <fhtapia at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone played with virtual PC?,
> >
> > I attended the Microsoft Launch on Dec 6th, and received some trial
> > software that I wanted to try out, including the windows 2003
> > enterprise w/ the tech preview of biztalk server. (not to menton the
> > vs2005/sql2005 standard ed's
> >
> > from reading the docs on virtual pc, it sounds like the correct
> > platform for me.  this way I can try out sql2005 and vs2005 w/o
> > affecting my current sql2000 and vs2003 installs.
> >
> > any advise or warnings?
> > --
> > -Francisco
>
>
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