Hi Gerard, I don't participate here much because I rarely actually use DP any more, but my affection for the product has me retain this subscription. Anyway I thought it appropriate to respond.
On my own system these days I use VMware Workstation. I used to host it on Win7 Home edition - but was forced to upgrade when I wanted to expand the hardware memory over 32GB. Using VMware I run many different guests, including an ongoing development using Windows XP. So I can say with full confidence that this configuration works extremely well. However, back in late 2009 I did play with VirtualBox when I was having problems with VMware (related to multi-processor performance). I remember being impressed with the quality of the product over all. Yes VMware out-performed it, but that was only really noticeable on the very intensive C++ builds I was doing at the time. For something like DP I would expect your results to be more than adequate. There were a few minor glitches found, but I doubt if those remain after 3 years. (The version of VirtualBox that I tested was v3.0.6.) I must, of course, repeat the disclaimer that I rarely use DP any more, so I can't guarantee you'll be satisfied, but if you are in need of something like this then I'd say VirtualBox was definitely worth trying. My experience, even back then, was that it was certainly a product that compared well to VMware. With any virtualisation solution the important necessary ingredient is RAM - lots of it. Remember that you'll have to give each VM guest enough memory to work, and while the virtualisation software does try to economize where it can, you still need plenty of memory. For example VMware recommend 512MB for an XP guest, and then there is some added overhead. For example I give my Delphi and C++ development XP machine 1GB of RAM and it actually uses about 1.2GB. So if you don't have that sort of RAM to spare (over top of your other use) then you probably won't be happy with the VM guest. I hope this helps. -- Geoff Worboys Telesis Computing Pty Ltd Gerard van Loenhout wrote: > Thank you all for the feedback I received on my Win 7 64bits > posting. Virtual PC does not work on Win 7 Home. > > Dosbox is very slow with the screen buildup when you have a > full 'Related Records Window'. And I have many. > > So after going through Bob's list I have decided to install > one of the new PCs with Win XP. > > Unless...someone knows about VirtualBox. Any experience here? > > Gerard _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
