Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Tue Dec 4 15:59:38 CST 2012
Hi Robert -- Do you use Hyper-V to manager your VMs? <<< Each VM can attach to the external drive.. >>> What is that? Thank you. -- Shamil Вторник, 4 декабря 2012, 14:06 от Robert Stewart <rls at WeBeDb.com>: > > > > >Arthur, > > VMs give you the versatility of creating what ever you need without being > bound to any hardware other than the base system. That base system can be > just about any OS you want to run. > > In my case, I can setup a Win XP machine running Office XP, a Win XP > machine running Office 2003, a Win XP machine running Office 2007, > a Win XP machine running Office 2010, a Win 7 machine running Office 2003, > a Win 7 machine running Office 2007, a Win 7 machine running Office 2010, > a Win 7 machine running Office 2013, a Win 8 machine running Office 2007, > a Win 8 machine running Office 2010, a Win 8 machine running Office 2013, > a Win 2008 R2 Server running SQL 2008 R2, a Win 2012 Server running SQL > 2008 R2, a Win 2008 R2 Server running SQL 2012, a Win 2012 Server running > SQL 2012, a Win 2008 R2 Server running SharePoint 2010, and...well, > I think you > can get the point by now. And, since I have 32 gig of ram in my machine, I can > allocate just enough ram to each VM that I can have 5 or 6 of them > running at the > same time if I need to. > > As to using VHDs, I just use directories on an external hard drive > for client development. > Each VM can attach to the external drive, or map to it within the > "network" if needed. I > then have at least 2 backups of the "development" environment that I > synchronize using > Allway Sync. > > Robert > > At 03:01 PM 12/3/2012, you wrote: > >Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 15:08:40 -0500 > >From: Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> > >To: Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru>, "Discussion concerning > > Visual Basic and related programming issues." > > <dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com> > >Subject: Re: [dba-VB] [SPAM] Create and Use a Virtual Hard Disk on > > Windows 7 and Windows 8 > >Message-ID: > > <CAEPJO1hbF5ZfTvGfm5FmjTx-f7eW92DbgG2-Zpwj_JgYELZENw at mail.gmail.com> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R > > > >Ok, maybe I am getting something absolutely wrong here, but I fail to > >comprehend the VM thing. It seems to me that given the plummeting price of > >hardware, VMs have no reason to exist. For example, all you need for a > >bitchin' Linux box or XP box or Windows 7 box is about $500 or less. Said > >box would run way faster than any VM, and if you have a KVM then you have > >about 4 or 5 boxes all running at once, and push a button to switch from > >this one to that one. Granted, there is also the consumption-of-electricity > >issue to to factor into this, but even granting that, I still don't get it. > >So let us suppose that I want two Linux boxes, onw XP box, one Windows 7 > >box, a dedicated server, and although I don't yet have the money, a Windows > >8 box. The XP and Linux boxes think 2GB is wealth. The Win7 and Win8 prefer > >a tad more, and the server more than a tad more. But my point is, why not > >just buy a separate box for each task? We're not talking about huge amounts > >of loot here. And the gain is that everything runs as quickly as it can! > > > >So maybe I'm missing something important here; in which case, please > >educate me. > > > >A. > > Robert L. Stewart > > Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good > programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler > > >www.WeBeDb.com > >www.DBGUIDesign.com > >www.RLStewartPhotography.com > _______________________________________________ > dba-VB mailing list > >dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com > >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb > >http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > >