> -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 7:56 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not? > > So I get this email that MS has released Virtual PC for free. > > Not having used Virtual PC or anything like it, I have to ask.are > any of you using Virtual PC or something similar in you CF work?
Yup... both server and standard. My home development box is a VPC Server host: one big box, lots of little (virtual) servers. Until I got him a dedicated box I also used VPC in a lifesaving application: to run a dedicated Windows 98 instance to install all the crappy games that my toddler son demanded. It saved my ass when "Thomas and the Magic Annoying Choo-Choo" decided it NEEDED to run at 256 colors at 640x480 and uninstalled DirectX to do it. For business use I've got a large collection of VPCs: all versions of Windows, several Linux distros and some oddballs (BeOS... just for kicks). I've also got a VPC with a second Windows XP license just to install my work software and keep it from infecting my actual PC (Lotus Notes, DB2 Client, etc). VPCs are good network citizens and I can happily VPN to the office from with in the VPC. All that said I've found no significant differences between VPC and VMWare: they both do exactly what they say they're going to do and both do it exceedingly well. What I really want is for one of them to allow OS X as a guest OS... Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:246538 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
