Francisco Tapia
fhtapia at gmail.com
Wed Dec 21 11:58:09 CST 2005
AS a follow up I downloaded the VMplayer and the ubuntu kiosk and the full Ubuntu VM, and man do they run flawlessly, I havent played w/ ubuntu for quite some time but it looks like they really have been improving their desktop :) last night i worked on getting a few games loaded along w/ weblinks for my son and renamed the vm to my son's name, and asked him if he wants to browse the web he can click on the icon w/ Mario (his favorite video game character) very cool :) On 12/21/05, Mark Breen <marklbreen at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- -Francisco http://pcthis.blogspot.com |PC news with out the jargon! http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More...