[DUG] D2009 + Windows 7: awesome!

[Gary T. Benner]

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HI all,

I've been running my Delphi within a VM ( XP ) for quite some time now with similar results re speed.

regards

Gary



At 18:35 on 29/05/2009 you wrote 
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>CC  : >From: Trevor, trevorj at ihug.co.nz
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>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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