Re: Finding W2K was Re: La Machine Est Morte, Vive La Machine!

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Kari, many thanks for this. I will definitely set up a snapshot
schedule for VMware. I assume something similar exists for the other VMs?


As to avoiding crashes, I don't know how to do it! 95% of the crashes
I experience in Win 7 or Win 8 are upon wakeup from suspend. I have
simply always assumed that suspend is one of those things that
Microsoft will never be able to do well even though Apple has always
managed it well. Baffling!


At 23/07/2014 07:44, you wrote:
> Bill,
>
> You can configure networking from Machine, Settings, Network. The
> default is NAT, which is protected from surreptitious attacks from
> the outside, but you have Net access if you need it (for updating
> programs in situ, etc.). If you do not do anything foolish, this
> works ok and presents no great risk. For other options, see e.g.
>
> http://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Network_Configuration_in_VirtualBox
> and
> https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html
>
> Further down the line, you can adjust network settings through the
> W2K control panel, setting trusted domains, etc. Just as in your main machine.
>
>
> >This is my one problem with VMware, and I think VBox behaves the
> same. It very occasionally happens that my primary system (Win 8)
> crashes. When it does, the VM session is completely lost. I have to
> boot W2K fresh (admittedly this only takes a few seconds) and start
> Xy4 again, having lost any unsaved data. Surely there must be a
> technique of some kind for dealing with this - - setting up safe
> points every 15 minutes or so, perhaps? I would be very grateful for any input.
>
>
> You should fix your setup. It should never crash. VMware has a
> service called snapshot for preserving current VMs. You can make
> this work by installing the command line tools, and running:
>
> vmrun snapshot path/.vmx from a cmd file (or by scheduling through Windows).
> See: https://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_learning_cli_vmrun.html
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kari Eveli
> LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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>
> 22.7.2014 21:20, Bill Troop wrote:
> > I am not sure - - but doubtless Kari knows - - how to enable or
> > disable Internet access in W2K/VM-of-choice. I only found that when
> > I installed W2K from the ISO I have mentioned, Internet Access was
> > turned off. If I recall, Harry, it was you who informed me of the
> > test I needed to make to ensure that I did not have Internet
> > access. What I wanted was not to have Internet access but to give
> > W2K/XyWrite complete access to my host drive, and this has worked
> > out with remarkably little trouble.