Re: Windows 8.1 and XyWrite

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

And that will still allow VirtualBox to connect? When I had Snow Leopard
running in VBox under Win 8.0, the OS's connected via 'the network'
except that it was a virtual network that operated at the speed of the
hard drive. That I would like to maintain.


At 25/11/2013 16:33, you wrote:

How not to allow W2K Internet
access: just leave the "standard gateway" setting blank in the
network connections thingy.





-----Original Message-----

From: Bill Troop 

Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:19:08 +0000

To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx

Subject: Re: Windows 8.1 and XyWrite


>Thanks for the suggestion, Kari. I will try it out. And W2K would


>have the advantage of no S/N/validation, right? As regards security,


>surely it's possible to get VBox to let Win 8.1 'network' W2K to but


>not allow W2K internet access?

>

>At 25/11/2013 06:48, you wrote:

>>I am not sure, but VirtualBox and W2K might be worth considering


>>(when there are no more updates in the spring, XP will not be
much

>>more secure than W2K, W2K is less unnecessary code). Then there
is

>>VMware, which is a professional virtualization system (see:

>>http://www.duxburysystems.com/documentation/megadots/vmware.htm; eudora="autourl">
http://www.duxburysystems.com/documentation/megadots/vmware.htm

>>mentioned by Jon Pareles). I have not been a big fan of VMware,


>>because it is rather heavy (installation takes time) and does not


>>accommodate other virtualization solutions. E.g., there is no way
to

>>switch off hardware virtualization (other than BIOS) if hardware


>>virtualization is present. I have started experimenting with
VMware

>>and XP mode, but run into some problems, and have not had time to


>>work it out properly.

>>

>>Best regards,

>>

>>Kari Eveli

>>LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)

>>lexitec@xxxxxxxx

>>

>>*** Lexitec Online ***

>>Lexitec in English:
http://www.lexitec.fi/english.html; eudora="autourl">
http://www.lexitec.fi/english.html

>>Home page in Finnish:
http://www.lexitec.fi/; eudora="autourl">
http://www.lexitec.fi/

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>24.11.2013 23:58, Bill Troop wrote:

>>>Kari recently wrote,

>>>

>>>>XP mode is the preferred solution for running legacy
programs in

>>>>Win 7 64-bit.

>>>

>>>But what of Windows 8.1 ? This is a terrible operating system
for

>>>many reasons, one of the least significant being that there
are

>>>many USB 3 drives that would work with Sandy Bridge era
laptops but

>>>that won't work with 8.1 - - a problem that has been
documented for

>>>over a year without a solution.

>>>

>>>However, I am testing a laptop with 3200x1600 resolution, and
there

>>>really is no choice but the installed Win 8.1, until
something

>>>superior comes along, as it must.

>>>

>>>What is the preferred solution for 8.1 ? VirtualBox and XP
?

>>>

>>

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