RE: Mixing development software versions

2010-08-06 Thread Greg Keogh
Thanks for everyone’s replies on this subject. Your comments have clarified things and led to a solution. I have downloaded the 104MB VMware-player-3.1.0-261024.exe product and run it through a sanity test. It recognised my previous VMs created with VMWare Server 2 and it opens them; and Win

RE: Mixing development software versions

2010-08-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Thursday, 5 August 2010 1:33 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Mixing development software versions What version of VMware? The host machine is a 2 and a half year old dual core machine running Vista. I installed VMw

RE: Mixing development software versions

2010-08-04 Thread Greg Keogh
What version of VMware? The host machine is a 2 and a half year old dual core machine running Vista. I installed VMware-server-2.0.1-156745.exe which is the 507MB free server. I’ve been running more experiments with hardware acceleration and the VM Tools in different combinations. It seems t

Re: Mixing development software versions

2010-08-04 Thread Sam Lai
+1. I know there have been compatibility issues with Windows 7 and 2008 R2 in older versions of VMware ESX (prior to 4.0 U1). One of the symptoms were random freezes. I would assume the same issue occurs in older versions of consumer VMware products as well. Did you install the VMware VGA driver

Re: Mixing development software versions

2010-08-04 Thread mike smith
On 4 August 2010 09:20, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, I’m preparing for the big migration of all of my projects to > VS2010, Framework 4 and Silverlight 4. I built a Win7 in WMWare with the > latest software development installed so I could rebuild and test everything > in parallel with my real wor

RE: Mixing development software versions

2010-08-04 Thread Paul Glavich
otnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Wednesday, 4 August 2010 9:20 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: Mixing development software versions Folks, I'm preparing for the big migration of all of my projects to VS2010, Framework 4 and Silverlight 4. I built a Win7 in WM

Re: Mixing development software versions

2010-08-03 Thread Grant Molloy
Greg, Ensure that you have the VMWare Tools installed in the VM Client. Grant On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, I’m preparing for the big migration of all of my projects to > VS2010, Framework 4 and Silverlight 4. I built a Win7 in WMWare with the > latest software de

RE: Mixing development software versions

2010-08-03 Thread Greg Low (greglow.com)
very happy with it too. Regards, Greg From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Wednesday, 4 August 2010 12:20 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: Mixing development software versions Folks, I'm preparing for the b

RE: Mixing development software versions

2010-08-03 Thread David Loo
ugust 2010 7:20 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: Mixing development software versions Folks, I'm preparing for the big migration of all of my projects to VS2010, Framework 4 and Silverlight 4. I built a Win7 in WMWare with the latest software development installed so I could rebuild an

RE: Mixing development software versions

2010-08-03 Thread Michael O'Dea-Jones
rt is that it's free! Regards, Michael O'Dea-Jones From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Wednesday, 4 August 2010 9:20 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: Mixing development software versions Folks, I'm preparing f

Re: Mixing development software versions

2010-08-03 Thread David Richards
Greg, I haven't experienced your specifi problem since I'm still using VS2008 on XP but I do work exclusively in VMs so I tell you what little relevant iinfo I can offer. For the mouse jittering, chech the hardware acceleration options (you may have already tried this). No idea where in Win7 but

Re: Mixing development software versions

2010-08-03 Thread Joseph Clark
I've had no problems mixing different versions of Visual Studio (2008 & 2010) and the .NET Framework (2, 3 & 4) on the one machine. Can't vouch for Silverlight though/ HTH, Joe. On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, I’m preparing for the big migration of all of my projec

Mixing development software versions

2010-08-03 Thread Greg Keogh
Folks, I'm preparing for the big migration of all of my projects to VS2010, Framework 4 and Silverlight 4. I built a Win7 in WMWare with the latest software development installed so I could rebuild and test everything in parallel with my real work. Unfortunately, problems with the mouse and stalls