On Jul 14, 11:26 pm, "Adam Getchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
Hi Adam,
> Right now I'm building Sage 3.0 on Xubuntu 8.04 Server LTS on Hyper-V,
> Microsoft's new virtualization platform.
>
> So far it looks to be roughly half the size as the VMWare version
> (we'll see once I discard all the various build snapshots along the
> way), and unlike VMWare workstation is able to properly resize
> X-Window display. It's currently built using the legacy network
> adapter (due to no Integration services tools yet), which shouldn't
> really affect performance, but is something that can be looked at.
Nice.
> If you run Windows Server 2008 the Hyper-V image should be instantly
> runnable. I took the long-way round, that is, I built the image from
> scratch with the Linux install directions, rather than just porting
> over my VMWare image (which can be done, but gets messy due to virtual
> SCSI->virtual IDE issues, which seems to have been fixed recently).
>
> If you have any suggestions or comments on this, send them over,
> otherwise I'll post a build to the Sage site whenever I get this to
> work.
Is the image 32 or 64 bit? It would be nice to have a 64 bit image
since at least now all the VMWare images I am aware of are 32 bits.
Making such an image in 64 bit is not a technical problem, but so far
no one has stepped forward to provide one.
> Cheers,
>
> Adam
Cheers,
Michael
> "Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability in the opponent." -- Sun Tzu
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