Dont know if this is the right forum or not.
Got a brand spanking new i7 computer with windows 7.
I want to run a program that pretty much automates one on my online jobs…however the mouse and keyboard get dedicated to this task so I cannot us them for regular use.
I was thinking of setting up a virtual machine…but is there a way this program wont affect the mouse not on the virtual machine?
Also what is the best software? I just downloaded virtualbox
Well looks like virtualbox maybe okay to do what I need
Virtualization.
VM’s are the bane of my existence.
I work from home and all my customer VMs (VM’s where I duplicate their environments) are spread out across the country. Resource hogs.
If you’re doing simple stuff, not so bad. High end graphics or processor intensive things SUCK.
I have a couple customers who have virtualized full systems including production database servers, web servers, app servers, etc. Ho-ly Shit.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
VM’s are the bane of my existence.
I work from home and all my customer VMs (VM’s where I duplicate their environments) are spread out across the country. Resource hogs.
If you’re doing simple stuff, not so bad. High end graphics or processor intensive things SUCK.
I have a couple customers who have virtualized full systems including production database servers, web servers, app servers, etc. Ho-ly Shit.[/quote]
Yeah the programs are pretty light.
Will the mouse and keyboard thing be a problem?
[quote]SickAbs wrote:
Virtualization.[/quote]
IS that a program?
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
I have a couple customers who have virtualized full systems including production database servers, web servers, app servers, etc. Ho-ly Shit.[/quote]
I believe that’s the way to go moving forward. For net-based services, I see no compelling reason for the traditional server method. Maybe in the past when virtualization was in its infancy performance was severely degraded, but nowadays? Awesome.
I use VMs on my laptop. Linux host were all my work is done, and a Windows VM. Whenever the Windows machine gets corrupted with viruses/malware/bloat; delete, clone master copy, good to go.
VMs are awesome. At work most of our servers are now VMs. I have a few different ones I use for developing apps that have specific environment requirements, also makes setting up new environments super easy.
x3 (or 4) on VM’s. We migrated over 30 servers onto a couple VM’s. No problems. I love the fact we can move a VM from one physical server to another in seconds with VMotion.
For your home application it should work just fine. A whole entirely different operating system is running on your PC at the same time when you run it as a VM. So any system call such as keyboard and mouse will run independently of the “real” operating system. They both have access to the network simultaneously as well.
Thanks everyone,
just set up ‘windows xp mode’ and that is running in the background whilst I am browsing the internet. Doesn’t affect the mouse or keyboard at all.
Would it be too greedy to have ‘windows xp mode’ and a “virtual box” open at the same time?
Do I have to buy a copy of XP to use virtual box?
[quote]debraD wrote:
VMs are awesome. At work most of our servers are now VMs. I have a few different ones I use for developing apps that have specific environment requirements, also makes setting up new environments super easy.[/quote]
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[quote]johnnytang24 wrote:
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
I have a couple customers who have virtualized full systems including production database servers, web servers, app servers, etc. Ho-ly Shit.[/quote]
I believe that’s the way to go moving forward. For net-based services, I see no compelling reason for the traditional server method. Maybe in the past when virtualization was in its infancy performance was severely degraded, but nowadays? Awesome.
I use VMs on my laptop. Linux host were all my work is done, and a Windows VM. Whenever the Windows machine gets corrupted with viruses/malware/bloat; delete, clone master copy, good to go.
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Agree.
The achilles heel of vm’s is processing resources. If the processing power is there, they are awesome, ESPECIALLY for testing and development. Production environments are always hairy, but some of the chips now (like Xeon Nehalem 5570) are just monsters. You start clustering big fat servers together that can handle the processing, then VM’s are gold. I’m talking huge enterprise operations here, not setting up a VM on a machine somewhere.
I work with GIS software and databases. It seems I always need more beef from the VM’s, but otherwise great. I mean, who has 50 extra workstations sitting around?
[quote]db2000 wrote:
Do I have to buy a copy of XP to use virtual box?[/quote]
When you install the Windows XP VM it’s going to ask you for a product key so I would say yes. I’m not 100% because any time I’ve installed a VM at home, it’s been Windows VM along side a Linux VM. I’ve never done 2 Windows VM’s for home use but I’m pretty certain you’ll need a license for each version of Windows that you are running.