Extensions for non-XP VMs in Win7
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From: David Wilkinson on 8 Feb 2010 10:39 Robert Comer wrote: >> A much better solution than WVPC in my opinion. > > Depends on what you need to do, I'll take WVPC myself... > > You can run VMWare on a PC with WVPC too, you just can't run VM's from > both at the same time as WVPC needs VT and VMWare uses it if it's > there and you can't turn it off. (and two apps can't use it at the > same time yet.) Well, I don't have VT on my main workstation, so for me there is only one way to go. I guess I'm just comfortable using Workstation and VPC2007, because that's what I was doing on XP. Upgrade to Workstation 7 (or free Reader 3) and licensed XP-mode comes for free. -- David Wilkinson Visual C++ MVP
From: Robert Comer on 8 Feb 2010 10:57 >Well, I don't have VT on my main workstation, so for me there is only one way to go. You wont always have that machine. <g> There's nothing wrong with VPC2007/VMWare combo, I just like the scripting and XPMode (the real one with seamless apps, not just the VM of the same name) that WVPC brings to the table. I use WVPC for almost everything, but for the odd thing out, I use VMWare WS too... >Upgrade to Workstation 7 (or free Reader 3) and licensed >XP-mode comes for free. Depends on when you bought it -- I had to pay for the upgrade to 7 from 6.5... -- Bob Comer On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:39:28 -0500, David Wilkinson <no-reply(a)effisols.com> wrote: >Robert Comer wrote: >>> A much better solution than WVPC in my opinion. >> >> Depends on what you need to do, I'll take WVPC myself... >> >> You can run VMWare on a PC with WVPC too, you just can't run VM's from >> both at the same time as WVPC needs VT and VMWare uses it if it's >> there and you can't turn it off. (and two apps can't use it at the >> same time yet.) > >Well, I don't have VT on my main workstation, so for me there is only one way to go. > >I guess I'm just comfortable using Workstation and VPC2007, because that's what >I was doing on XP. Upgrade to Workstation 7 (or free Reader 3) and licensed >XP-mode comes for free.
From: Dave Warren on 8 Feb 2010 12:45 In message <9160n5lqkcn9avplfad4elb50k42f2413b(a)4ax.com> Robert Comer <bobcomer-removeme-(a)mindspring.com> was claimed to have wrote: >You can run VMWare on a PC with WVPC too, you just can't run VM's from >both at the same time as WVPC needs VT and VMWare uses it if it's >there and you can't turn it off. (and two apps can't use it at the >same time yet.) This isn't an issue with recent VMWare Workstation releases, it automatically detects WVPC and switches off VT when appropriate.
From: Robert Comer on 8 Feb 2010 12:50 Cool! I hadn't noticed, I did all my combined VMWare/WVPC testing with WS6.5. That will certainly come in handy. -- Bob Comer On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:45:13 -0800, Dave Warren <dave-usenet(a)djwcomputers.com> wrote: >In message <9160n5lqkcn9avplfad4elb50k42f2413b(a)4ax.com> Robert Comer ><bobcomer-removeme-(a)mindspring.com> was claimed to have wrote: > >>You can run VMWare on a PC with WVPC too, you just can't run VM's from >>both at the same time as WVPC needs VT and VMWare uses it if it's >>there and you can't turn it off. (and two apps can't use it at the >>same time yet.) > >This isn't an issue with recent VMWare Workstation releases, it >automatically detects WVPC and switches off VT when appropriate.
From: Bo Berglund on 8 Feb 2010 15:10
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:39:28 -0500, David Wilkinson <no-reply(a)effisols.com> wrote: >I guess I'm just comfortable using Workstation and VPC2007, because that's what >I was doing on XP. Upgrade to Workstation 7 (or free Reader 3) and licensed >XP-mode comes for free. Does XP-mode really come for free even if not used in WVPC? I thought that it was free in order to enable Win7 users who have apps tha won't run on Win7 to still use them by running then in XP-mode. Instead of fixing up Win7 to run these apps Microsoft offered a free XP-bubble to run them in. But is it really legal to download that XP virtual machine and then run it inside VMWare Workstation7 or Player3?? -- Bo Berglund (Sweden) |