Max Wanadoo
max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Mon Jul 27 02:47:01 CDT 2009
Also, If anybody has time to look at these two references contained in the wikepedia I would be grateful. I don't know enough about VM to make a judgement. Thanks Max On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Max Wanadoo <max.wanadoo at gmail.com> wrote: > Any idea of what percentage of memory I should allocate to the VM systems? > > Thanks > > Max > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart > McLachlan > Sent: 26 July 2009 22:43 > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using a VM/VPC (was: Office 2003 and 2007) > > Personally I favour Sun VirtualBox. > > -- > Stuart > > On 26 Jul 2009 at 20:18, Max Wanadoo wrote: > > > Thanks Guys, > > Now, given that I will try the VM route to save having the problems that > > Susan mentions. > > > > Which VM? > > Sun > > MS > > The other > > > > ?? > > > > Max > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart > McLachlan > > Sent: 26 July 2009 18:39 > > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using a VM/VPC (was: Office 2003 and 2007) > > > > Each Virtual Machine consists of two components - > > > > A folder containing a collection of which make up the machine itself. > > A large file with as .vdi extension which is a virtual disk ( can be more > > thanoone if you want > > to set up multiple disks on the machine). > > > > You don't touch your partitions or instal additional OSs on the parent > > system. > > > > > > The steps to creating a VM once you have installed VirtualBox are ( all > > wizard driven): > > > > 1. Create the machine after specifying a few parameters > > 2. Specify the desired size of the virtual disk and create it. > > 3. Insert an OS instal disk in your CD Drive or select an ISO image of > one > > on your PC > > 4. Instal the OS on the Virtual Disk > > > > Voila! > > > > -- > > Stuart > > > > On 26 Jul 2009 at 11:19, Dan Waters wrote: > > ... > > > > > > For each PC, do you need to set up another OS within the partition? > Can > > you > > > use the same one? Does VirtualBox have a method to create the > partition > > > without having to reformat your existing C Drive? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > Dan > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > > > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur > Fuller > > > Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 10:43 AM > > > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > > > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Office 2003 and 2007 > > > > > > Susan, > > > > > > As pointed out by others in this thread, the sure-fire solution is > using > a > > > virtual machine. My choice happens to be Sun's VirtualBox, just because > I > > > wanted to do some Ruby On Rails coding. > > > > > > > -- > > 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 > >