At 18:36:07 on Thu, 18 Aug 2022, Jim Crowther wrote in
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>I've finally made the move to Windows 10, after my trusty Win 7 Pro
>machine decided its hinges would break, and I was donated another more
>modern laptop.
>
>Now the task was to set up Turnpike on a virtual XP machine in Windows
>10. I tried both Hyper-V and VMware - both were a RRPITA to set up, and
>neither of them would allow the mouse to travel seamlessly from the host
>(W10) to the guest (XP). Even using the clipboard was fraught with
>gotchas. :(
How odd. VirtualBox did not work properly for me at all on my WIn10
machine, although it had been OK on earlier PCs. VMWare is fine. The
version I first installed nearly two years ago required the Hyper-V
support in Win10 to be disabled, but I believe that is not necessary in
current versions. With VMWare Tools installed the mouse works seamlessly
- did you install the Tools? A similar Extension Pack is also needed in
VirtualBox. The clipboard also works fine - except sometimes from Excel
but Excel is always touchy.
VMWare's Unity mode makes running TP completely transparent, it behaves
as if running on the host machine. Before now people have worried that
they need to install a full set of programs on the guest, such as Word
to read .docs received in TP. But you simply drag/drop the file from the
email onto the host desktop and open it in Word from there.
>
>So last but not least I tried Virtualbox. You have to use Version 5.2,
>as the newer version 6 doesn't play with 32-bit OSs.
While I've not tried VBox V6, their docs say it supports 32-bit guests.
It does only run on 64-bit hosts, but if your host is 32-bit you don't
need a VM. And as you have Hyper-V it must be Win10 Pro x64 that you are
running. VBox5.2 went out of support 2 years ago - but then XP is long
gone.
VBox does not claim any support for Win11 yet (host or guest). VMWare
runs on my (test) Win11 host, and they say guests can get round the TPM
requirement.
It's been reported that a Win10 VM can be activated by the same product
key as the host. But it may well run just fine without being activated,
the restrictions are trivial. That avoids running an unsupported OS
which has had no security updates for many years.
>
>In the line above the XP window, click on 'Devices', 'drag and drop' and
>click on 'Bidirectional'. It's also useful to "Insert guest additions
>CD image". ;) Then you can access all the drives on the host PC etc.
>
>Copy your TP folder into C:\Program Files\ , and start to run entire.exe
>over the top. Read the readme! that pops up first and execute the CACLS
>commands in a CMD prompt to get the right permissions from the get-go.
>Then carry on the TP installation.
>
>Copy the stunnel folder into Program Files, then run the installer.
>Make stunnel a service at start-up by using a CMD prompt:
>Navigate to: C:\program files\stunnel\bin>
>And enter stunnel -install
>( C:\program files\stunnel\bin>stunnel -install )
>
>If you want a Connect.exe shortcut on the desktop, remember it lives in:
>C:\program files\turnpike\bin - right-click on it and "send to" desktop
>as shortcut.
With VMWare you can put a shortcut in the host machine (Start, taskbar,
desktop, wherever) so you never need to see the VM's own desktop.
>
>That's about it. All works swimmingly at last - it took me about three
>days to get to this stage.
>
>HTH. :)
>
>
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SilverE