[DUG] D2009 + Windows 7: awesome!

[Jeremy Coulter]

Yeah I was impressed with the speed of Win7 even under a VM session. I have
managed to only have vista installed as a dual boot and only use if for
testing when I need to. I just couldn't get into it. But Windows 7 is
definitly nice. Vista might go down in history like Windows ME :-)

Jeremy

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Alister Christie
Sent: 31 May 2009 18:38
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] D2009 + Windows 7: awesome!

I was pretty impressed how snappy win7 was within VMWare on my laptop - my
laptop is about 3 years old now (and it wasn't all that flash when I got
it).  It did require a 20GB virtual disk - Win2k installs nicely into 2GB.

Alister Christie
Computers for People
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Trevor wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I may be preaching to the choir here, but hey....
>
>   I've been given a new project which is essentially an update of
> something that I originally wrote with the field test version of Delphi 1.
>
>   This time, we're going to be using decent machines and a decent
> environment.  I had requested an upgrade to D2009 before starting, but
> was told that I had to do a reasonable evaluation before the company
> would spend the money.  I've started doing that.
>
>   My first step was to install an evaluation version of D2009 (from a
> suspiciously flowery USB stick) into a pre-built XP VM that I had
> handy.  It didn't work.
>
>   D2009 wanted MDAC2.8 service pack 1 which I downloaded from MS.  The
> MDAC installer just told me that "this software does not work on the
> this OS".  I wonder which OS MDAC is supposed to work on.  VMS maybe?
>
>   I changed tack, and did a bit of sweet-talking to the
> infra-structure guys.  They gave me a Windows 7 RC1 iso to use for
> building my VM.  That went swimmingly well.  The 7 VM was even able to
> get internet access from within our horrendously locked down corporate
network.
>
>   Next, I tried the D2009 installer on this VM.  It wanted a license key.
> Using my host machine, I tried to get one from the Embarcadero web
> site.  No luck.  I tried several browsers (opera, IE6 etc) but none
worked.
>
>   Back within the Windows 7 VM, I tried using IE8 to get a key from
> Embarcadero.  Success!  D2009 installed and now runs.
>
>   So now I am astonished.  My Windows 7 VM lives on a 1TB USB drive
> plugged into the host machine.  D2009 is installed in that VM.  I
> cannot believe how fast it all is.
>
>   Starting D2006 in my host (XP) machine takes about 2 minutes.
> Starting my Windows 7 VM, then starting D2009 in the VM takes about 30
seconds all up.
>
>   I'll do some more evaluation, but so far I am extremely impressed
> with the improvements that both MS have achieved with 7, and
> Embarcadero (CodeGear) have achieved with D2009.  I'm still
> flabbergasted that the VM is soooo much faster than the host,
> especially since the VM is actually running on the host.
>
> Trevor
>
>
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