Vbox and Xy4 [was Re: I need a new desktop computer -- Recommendations?]

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

On the subject of my pet peeve with VirtualBox/W2K/Xy4, I just upgraded
VirtualBox to the latest, 4.10, and still have the same problem. Xy4 will
not provide a directory of the host drive, though if I just execute the
DOS command from Xy4, the host drive is perfectly visible.


At 15/04/2014 20:24, you wrote:

Another possible factor here is
that it is said to be much more difficult to activate XP in VMWare
(perhaps made worse by the MS end of support for XP) than it is to do
this in VirtualBox.  According to something I was reading recently,
the hacks for doing this in the latter are much more accessible. 
Based on what's been discussed in this thread, W2K won't incur such
issues.




   Jordan






From: Bill Troop 


To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx


Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 10:35 AM


Subject: Re: I need a new desktop computer --
Recommendations?




That's interesting, Kari, I didn't know you were using VMware for XP.
May I ask whether your VBox/W2K setup allows XyWrite to access the host
drive by letter? Its inability to do this when I was using was what
caused me to switch to VMware. (i.e., say your host drive, or a folder on
your host drive, has been assigned by Z:, can you get a directory listing
of Z: in Xy4?)



At 11/04/2014 08:33, you wrote:


> Jordan,


>


> You can have both installed, but do not try to run two
(hardware-enabled) virtualization solutions at the same time. I would
suggest that you try to setup W2K in VMware or VirtualBox, whichever you
prefer. Both handle this well. And this setup is snappy, needs no
activation, and is easily portable to newer (Win 8) or other platforms
(Mac or Linux).


>


> I have three virtualization programs installed, namely VirtualPc
2007 for DOS/Win 3.1 and VirtualBox for W2K and VMware for XP mode
(VMware even handles activation). I can run VirtualPc 2007 (not
hardware-enabled) and one of the others (both hardware-enabled) at the
same time without problems.


>


> Best regards,


>


> Kari Eveli


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> 10.4.2014 22:03, J R FOX wrote:


>> And that reminds me: did you -- or someone else on the list
-- say I can


>> leave an already installed XP Mode in place, while trying
out VMWare as


>> an alternative solution, without concern about conflicts
?  (This is on


>> a different computer, running W7 x64.)