I was pretty impressed how snappy win7 was within VMWare on my laptop - my laptop is about 3 years old now (and it wasn't all that flash when I got it). It did require a 20GB virtual disk - Win2k installs nicely into 2GB.
Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Trevor wrote: > 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: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: > unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe
