Mike remember this suggestion, based on experience: - You first create your VM according to what are you going to do with it. In example, Windows uses +20 GB for it's OS plus continuous updates. I normally create 40 GB VMs, trying to install just the neccesary stuff - For better security and possibility of a smaller backup, you can create 1 Virtual Disk for the programs + OS, and other Virtual Disk for Data, using it as slave, so you can backup just your data and not all your programs and OS too. - At the moment that you finish installing the OS and have it booting OK, without installing anything else and powered off, you make the first snapshot of it, so in the event that something goes wrong when configuring it, you just recover your snapshot and start with a fresh OS again - Then you install and configure things (programs, OS, features, etc), and every time you get something working, take another snapshot, so you can recover the last working one if neccesary - Remember to add a good comment on every snapshot, so you know what you have installed on each step.
Doing this, and in the worst case, you always can restore from your 1st snapshot and get the fresh OS without any software installed, and do not need to spend hours installing and configuring from the start. Another goodie of separating Programs and Data disks, is that in the case that a virus get inside your Programs VM, you just restore to the previous snapshot I you can't desinfect with AV software and that's it! :D Best Regards! 2016-05-11 23:50 GMT+02:00 Michael Glassman <[email protected]>: > Thanks for answering so quickly, Fernando and Mike. > I'll have to try it again. I never got it to work last time I tried. > > Mike > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike > Copeland > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 3:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NF] Virtual Box > > Mike, > > I have the same situation, identical. > > On my development workstation, Win7Pro, I have installed and set up my > FoxPro 2.0 DOS application with DOSBox .74 (noconsole) and it works great. > In fact, using DOSBox my FoxPro DOS app comes up immediately and there are > no intervening steps, no 2nd OS interface to deal with. > > The data files in my setup are actually on a machine in another city, > accessed via VPN over the Intertube, and DOSBox handles it just fine (as a > mapped drive.) So, yes, shared files in a MANY-multi-user environment > (~250). I have not used this setup extensively with writing data...so it is > possible that updating (writing to) index files or data files might have > issues although I'm not sure why they would. > > What I have NOT tried is printing from the DOSBox FoxPro DOS app. YMMV. > > Mike Copeland > > > Michael Glassman wrote: > > And does VirtualBox work with shared files in a multi-user environment? > > That was always the downside to DOSBox. > > I ask because we still are running one app in FoxPro for DOS under XP > > Mode on Win7Pro 64-bit machines. > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > > Mike Copeland > > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 1:27 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [NF] Virtual Box > > > > Suh weet! Thanks Paul! > > > > Mike Copeland > > > > Paul Hill wrote: > >> On 11 May 2016 at 19:17, Mike Copeland <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Paul Hill wrote: > >>>> On 10 May 2016 at 15:04, > >>>> <[email protected]> > >>>> wrote: > >>>>> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads > >>>>> > >>>>> I'm going to let my main dev machine do the free upgrade to Win10 > soon. > >>>>> I > >>>>> bought a Win7 Pro license yesterday to put on another older Dell > >>>>> laptop I've got (where I currently have Linux Mint on it). Tech > >>>>> buddy here at the Corporate gig suggested I get Virtual Box > >>>>> (free!) to host multiple OSes. > >>>> Don't forget that Win 8/10 Pro comes with HyperV (Microsoft's VM). > >>>> You just need to enable it in Windows Features. > >>>> > >>> Does this mean that a valid licensed copy of WinXP could be > >>> installed on a > >>> Win10 machine? > >> Yes, if you have a license. It doesn't come with one. > >> > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAGQ_JunLUvRqWhKO2s=ooe8ynvp+gv14ssynzrpmqzdwdu8...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
