Hi Greg, Another thought:
I have been using Sun Virtual Box (now Oracle Virtual Box) for all my development without any problems all year. All host PCs\Laptops are Win 7 64 bit. I can create 32 or 64 bit VM's. I can even create a 64 bit VM and run it inside a 32 bit host. The best part is that it's free! Regards, Michael O'Dea-Jones From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Wednesday, 4 August 2010 9:20 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: Mixing development software versions Folks, I'm preparing for the big migration of all of my projects to VS2010, Framework 4 and Silverlight 4. I built a Win7 in WMWare with the latest software development installed so I could rebuild and test everything in parallel with my real work. Unfortunately, problems with the mouse and stalls in VM are ruining my plans. Win7 has a terribly "jittery" mouse in the VM which requires the VMWare drivers be installed to correct the problem. However, the installation of these drivers causes the VM to freeze dead randomly every 5-10 minutes. It seems to freeze when I am manipulating opening and closing tree control nodes in Windows Explorer and the VS2010 solution pane. I spent hours researching this problem and found that if I only install the mouse and video drivers then the problem only happens every 20-30 minutes. This is still unacceptable. I continue to search for a way of making the Win7 VM stable, but no luck so far. This isn't a .NET related problem, but I'd love to hear from anyone else who has suffered from this problem and solved it. My other option is to not us a VM and install VS2010, Framework 4 and Silverlight 4 and all of the supporting kits on my work machine alongside their previous versions. Cramming everything together gives me a creepy feeling. Before I consider doing this, I just wanted to ask if this is acceptable in theory and in practise. Has anyone got everything installed side-by-side and can report success or side effects. I don't want to destroy the machine I use to make a living. Greg
