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

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Just so long as you're clear, Jordan, that, using Win2K as the guest,
VBox will not (in its current version) allow XyWrite to display
directories of your host drive, but VMware will. That is the main reason
to prefer VMware at this time. There is no reason why this should not be
fixed in the future, but it is possible that no bug report has been
filed.


At 23/07/2014 17:15, you wrote:

Thanks Kari, this is good to
know.  Given that Virtualbox seems to have received the better
reviews here -- for more flexibility in certain areas -- it would be good
to find out about any equivalent VM 'snapshot' or backup facility it may
offer.




   Jordan






From: Kari Eveli 


To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx


Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 11:44 PM


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




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
http://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Network_Configuration_in_VirtualBox



and


https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html
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
https://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_learning_cli_vmrun.html




Best regards,



Kari Eveli


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