my issue is the speed of the vms.
I use win7 as my default and I seem to have things slow down a lot.
However I never boosted a 64 bit os on it or extra ram, and I know it
if I use 1 or 2gb of ram in the box for a vm, I did not start with
it in mind origionally else I would have jacked the ram to twice or
even 3 times what I had because there is little room to manuver.
Also when accessing external devices like external drives especially
in vertual xp its really slow.
There is supposed to be a newer vmware 6 now with better support and power.
I think for now that I will just make a share folder and shove the
vms in that well all the stuff I want to share and run it like that.
However I think I may try running my vms on a desktop rather than a
laptop, anyway where I use my 7 laptop for real work I won't have
access to my gaming wrig or external keyboard so maybe I should aim
for a home system as it is.
At 06:48 AM 9/12/2013, you wrote:
nice thing about vmware is if you run it on a new machine and you
put windows xp inside of it then you can use xp with your new
components hard drives and stuff because vmware lets it work with those things.
sent from my vinux4 linux laptop
On 09/11/2013 02:43 PM, dark wrote:
I'm quite aware sapi 5.5, advanced net framework etc aren't
available for xp, but I've still! not been convinced that there
really is any reason to upgrade since practically speaking it seems
all I get is a more irritating interface and less compatibility
with a good few games, and though these components don't work, does
anything good actually use them?
If microsoft want to sell me a new operating system, give me a
reason why! I should use one, something it does better than xp, and
no, having flashy ribbons and the like isn't, indeed to me that's a
negative (I still think microsoft should've had the option for an
xp like interface).
If lots of developers use these new components to create better
games and such, well maybe that would be a reason to upgrade, but
that's not happened yet and I don't really see why i should say
goodbye to 32 bit compatibility, and! stagger around a more stupid
interface until that reason is there.
i don't doubt that will happen at some point in the future, but it
certainly hasn't yet, and especially not from microsoft.
I don't want to start this debate again, since I think everything
has been said that can be said, however I'm just pointing out there
are perfectly good reasons to stick with xp, and bigger numbers and
newer versions of components that most people only use to run other
software aren't! a reason to upgrade if they're not used for
anything good, which up to now they haven't been.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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