Hello, I run VMWare Workstation 6.5.1 on a ThinkPad T60 with 3GB RAM running Windows Vista Ultimate x86 and on a T61p with 4GB RAM running Windows Vista Ultimate x64 and successfully run MS-DOS 6.22, 98SE, NT 4.0 Workstation, 2000 Professional, XP Professional (x86), without problem for testing purposes or to research customer reported problems.
I am not fond of solely testing software under development in virtual machines because the environments are usually so pristine that they are not representative of a typical customer environment, but if you just need to do a quick check of a feature or generate a screen shot for a particular OS they are faster to access than having to load an imaged operating system onto native hardware. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky At 08:59 AM 3/14/2009, you wrote:
Message: 9 Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:46:36 -0800 From: [email protected] (Jonathan Berry) Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] 64 bit Vista To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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I'm wondering about Virtual Machines. Is it true that you can get free VM-ware player, run it under 64-bit linux (I'm talking about contemporary 4GB RAM and up machines now), create virtual machines, and run your old software? And is it practical? For example, are the files that the virtualized application writes, accessible in the normal way outside that box? Do you have to move all the files that the virtualized application accesses to a particular partition/folder? That could cause some chaos in XVP. -- happy Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm
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