With VMWare player you could run your XP across dual monitors. I use it like
that on a Windows 7 host and it works beautifully.
Cheers
Dave
On 7 April 2011 16:23, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:
OK! ... too much choice, leaving me more confused.
I thought VirtualBox had to be installed as
With VMWare player you could run your XP across dual monitors. I use it
like that on a Windows 7 host and it works beautifully.
Now that sounds promising.
Greg
and then delete both messages.
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From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Greg Keogh
Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2011 2:45 PM
To: 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: [OT] Virtual machine alternatives
With VMWare
Greg,
1. Why in the world would she need to run XP? Can't you run the software
that she needs in XP compatibility mode?
2. If you really really need it: XPMode. You can get the the apps to be
published under W7 but run in the virtual XP directly without her even
knowing the apps run in XP or that
Corneliu, thanks, this is a fresh way of looking at it. My wife runs some
pretty heavy-duty stuff like Adobe Framemaker, RoboHelp, Photoshop, etc over
huge documents. I'm not directly involved, but I hear her talking of
delicate dependencies on 32 and 64 bit Windows and different versions of
Greg,
XPMode was designed like that:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspxJust install it,
run it and install the apps you want it in. They are automatically published
in your W7 apps list. Close the VM (it gets closed
Adrian Halid wrote:
I use Virtual Box and find there is a very active community with
regular updates.
Very simple to use.
Has all the standard features of snapshots etc.
Virtual box also has dual monitor support for Guests O/S. I think
VMWare also does.
Another cool
Folks, I'm just building a new machine for my wife. She needs Win7 as the
boot OS and XP virtualised. I was wondering what choices I have for
virtualising and avoiding problems with mouse jitter and video performance
in the virtual OS.
I ask because early last year I had to drop VMWare Server
Why not use the XP
Modehttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx functionality
in Win7?
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Greg Keogh
Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2011 3:03 PM
To: 'ozDotNet'
Subject: [OT] Virtual machine
What do you think XP Mode is?
Cheers
Ken
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Chris Walsh
Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2011 1:28 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: RE: [OT] Virtual machine alternatives
Haha, when one talks about Virtualization, one shouldn't
I know what XP Mode is, Virtual PC by itself is worse than the XP Mode
implementation of it.
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Ken Schaefer
Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2011 3:44 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: RE: [OT] Virtual machine alternatives
: RE: [OT] Virtual machine alternatives
I know what XP Mode is, Virtual PC by itself is worse than the XP Mode
implementation of it.
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Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2011 3:44 PM
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