[Reply] HI all,
I've been running my Delphi within a VM ( XP ) for quite some time now with similar results re speed. regards Gary At 18:35 on 29/05/2009 you wrote >To : delphi@delphi.org.nz >CC : >From: Trevor, trev...@ihug.co.nz >Content Type: text/plain >Attached: > >Hi all, > I may be preaching to the choir here, but hey.... > > I've been given a new project which is essentially an update of something >that I originally wrote with the field test version of Delphi 1. > > This time, we're going to be using decent machines and a decent >environment. I had requested an upgrade to D2009 before starting, but was >told that I had to do a reasonable evaluation before the company would spend >the money. I've started doing that. > > My first step was to install an evaluation version of D2009 (from a >suspiciously flowery USB stick) into a pre-built XP VM that I had handy. It >didn't work. > > D2009 wanted MDAC2.8 service pack 1 which I downloaded from MS. The MDAC >installer just told me that "this software does not work on the this OS". I >wonder which OS MDAC is supposed to work on. VMS maybe? > > I changed tack, and did a bit of sweet-talking to the infra-structure >guys. They gave me a Windows 7 RC1 iso to use for building my VM. That >went swimmingly well. The 7 VM was even able to get internet access from >within our horrendously locked down corporate network. > > Next, I tried the D2009 installer on this VM. It wanted a license key. >Using my host machine, I tried to get one from the Embarcadero web site. No >luck. I tried several browsers (opera, IE6 etc) but none worked. > > Back within the Windows 7 VM, I tried using IE8 to get a key from >Embarcadero. Success! D2009 installed and now runs. > > So now I am astonished. My Windows 7 VM lives on a 1TB USB drive plugged >into the host machine. D2009 is installed in that VM. I cannot believe how >fast it all is. > > Starting D2006 in my host (XP) machine takes about 2 minutes. Starting my >Windows 7 VM, then starting D2009 in the VM takes about 30 seconds all up. > > I'll do some more evaluation, but so far I am extremely impressed with the >improvements that both MS have achieved with 7, and Embarcadero (CodeGear) >have achieved with D2009. I'm still flabbergasted that the VM is soooo much >faster than the host, especially since the VM is actually running on the >host. > >Trevor > > >_______________________________________________ >NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz >Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: >unsubscribe > Ref#: 41006
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