[DUG] D2009 + Windows 7: awesome!

[Alister Christie]

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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