deluxenax.blogg.se - Windows virtual pc windows

But VMWare has this for download here - I'm unsure of the legality of this even though it's an official download from VMWare, you may only be able to use it if you have the paid product. The one thing you'll miss though is VMWare tools which only comes with the Workstation product, not the player. You don't need the VMWare Workstation product to create a VM - check out EasyVMX here for a way to create easy VMs. I prefer VMWare over Virtual PC for both performance and usability (keep in mind that's my opinion). It's also handy since the backup is a simple directory copy on the host and you don't have to worry about recovering settings or re-installing applications. I actually run three development environments (and many test environments) under Ubuntu host in Windows guest virtual machines - it's very good for keeping things separated and for being able to restore test environments to a known point. The commercial options are not (anymore) worth what they cost, IMHO. It can also run virtual PC images, so switching was just a matter of installing virtualbox and adding my existing virtual PC disks to it.Īn added benefit is that I can run the virtual images just as easily on my new mac as on the old pc.

Virtualbox runs fullscreen on my 1920x1080 no problem. Virtualbox is fully free, and it has better features than VPC2007 - the main one that made me switch was the support for high resolutions. It was a bit rough in the beginning but the last few versions have really gotten there. Virtual PC is very convenient and it was what I used for starters, but I have to say that virtualbox seems to have overtaken it now. Basically you can't just make a copy of the virtual disk, you need to take some special precautions. If you need to do this you should read up on the sysprep.exe tool. Running multiple copies of the same guest OS when it is a member of a domain/AD is tricky.

Multiple Visual studio instances, IIS, SQL, Office, works just fine.

If you can satisfy the above, performance is no issue.

(This is basically like installing the proper drivers for your "virtual" hardware, and seems to be more important for performance than having hardware virtualisation support).

Install the virtual machine additions for the guest OS.

768 megs of ram for the VM is enough, but more is better.

It is a good idea for exactly the reasons you mention and it works fine.

I am doing mostly asp.net applications, some of the solutions are relatively large and use large databases which I also run inside the VM. I have been running multiple virtual development environments in MS Virtual PC and Virtualbox for 2 years now.