Kevin Powick
Steve Douglas
Tony Gravagno
to the VM. I have clients running several D3 environments in
VMware ESX, etc. These days I don't think there are any gotchas.
A VM is just another piece of hardware to these applications.
Just be sure to backup regularly, just like any other system.
The only thing I'd be careful of, and this _only_ applies to D3,
is that when you shutdown the VM, the DBMS should be scripted to
come down gracefully as well. Otherwise the DBMS crashes and is
subject to errors, just like the hardware was pulled out from
underneath it. Let me know when you get to this point.
TigerLogic now "supports" D3v9 in a VM. Prior to this, it worked
but was not a supported configuration. I believe this was due to
past issues with virtual NICs and maybe concerns about licensing.
YMMV and other disclaimers apply.
HTH
T
From: Kevin Powick
> For several years my D3/NT testing environment has
> been a simple XP Pro box, and it's pretty much all
> this lonely box is used for anymore. Everything else
> has been migrated to virtual machines.
>
> My plan would be to run D3/NT 7.x and/or 9.x on a
> Parallels VM running on OSX (10..6.8). I think I
Kevin Powick
On Wednesday, 4 January 2012 17:14:17 UTC-5, Tony Gravagno wrote:
I use D3v7 every day in VMware v2.0 and never have issues related
to the VM.
Kevin Powick
On Wednesday, 4 January 2012 16:00:03 UTC-5, Steve Douglas wrote:
We're running D3/Linux (redhat) so it may be different for you.
Ross Ferris
The only virtual environment we have had "issues" with was XEN --> I
haven't TRIED Parallels in the manner in which you describe (ie:
running D3 - have plenty of users who run it for things like AccuTerm,
although one of our users has made a "small" [700mb] wine instance
that works, so he now runs Accuterm from a native Mac Icon), but
wouldn't expect any gotcha's.
Tony Gravagno
> D3 NT or Linux? Which host OS (Centos, XP, Win Server
> 2003, etc?)
I'm running Win2003 Server as the guest over XP.
I also have a CentOS4 virtual that I haven't run since my D3
license there expired. Early last year someone in the TL forum
or somewhere else said they couldn't get support for CentOS5 so
they switched to another RH clone. I've lacked the time to fight
with such things so I haven't kept up with anything related to
Linux.
I installed Win7 a few months ago, planning a migration from XP
for daily use and development, but haven't made that big final
jump yet. In that system I re-installed vmWare with a Win2008
server guest and D3v9 - no problem whatsoever with that. So I
will be doing what you're doing. I just haven't worked on a
daily basis with that environment, so I can't vouch for it yet.
HTH
T
joseba
with the Linux time and the vm Time in some versions). I have also a
couple of D3 9.0 / Linux on EsWare. No problem. But take care about
something Tony has told before, when the virtual machine shutdown, D3
must do it before. And in a vmWare-Esware scenario, with 3 CPUs , if
the system detects something wrong (f.i. one CPU cannot ping to the
router) esWare automatically shutdown the virtual machine, move it to
another CPU and restart it. So.... . It is very important to start D3
alone when Linux starts, and shutdown D3 properly and again alone,
when Linux shutdown.
joseba