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<span style=
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"color:#000000 ">HI all,</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">I've been running my Delphi within a VM ( XP ) for quite some time now with similar results re speed.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">regards</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">Gary</span></span>
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<span style=
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"color:#000000 ">A</span><span style=
"color:#FF0000 "><b>t 18:35 on 29/05/2009 you wrote </b></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>To : delphi@delphi.org.nz</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>CC : </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>From: Trevor, trevorj@ihug.co.nz</span></span>
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"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Content Type: text/plain</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Attached: </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Hi all,</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">> I may be preaching to the choir here, but hey....</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">> I've been given a new project which is essentially an update of something</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>that I originally wrote with the field test version of Delphi 1.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">> This time, we're going to be using decent machines and a decent</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>environment. I had requested an upgrade to D2009 before starting, but was</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>told that I had to do a reasonable evaluation before the company would spend</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>the money. I've started doing that.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">> My first step was to install an evaluation version of D2009 (from a</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>suspiciously flowery USB stick) into a pre-built XP VM that I had handy. It</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>didn't work. </span></span>
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<span style=
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"color:#008000 ">></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">> D2009 wanted MDAC2.8 service pack 1 which I downloaded from MS. The MDAC</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>installer just told me that "this software does not work on the this OS". I</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>wonder which OS MDAC is supposed to work on. VMS maybe?</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">> I changed tack, and did a bit of sweet-talking to the infra-structure</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>guys. They gave me a Windows 7 RC1 iso to use for building my VM. That</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>went swimmingly well. The 7 VM was even able to get internet access from</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>within our horrendously locked down corporate network.</span></span>
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<span style=
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"color:#008000 ">></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">> Next, I tried the D2009 installer on this VM. It wanted a license key.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Using my host machine, I tried to get one from the Embarcadero web site. No</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>luck. I tried several browsers (opera, IE6 etc) but none worked.</span></span>
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<span style=
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"color:#008000 ">></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">> Back within the Windows 7 VM, I tried using IE8 to get a key from</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Embarcadero. Success! D2009 installed and now runs.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">> So now I am astonished. My Windows 7 VM lives on a 1TB USB drive plugged</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>into the host machine. D2009 is installed in that VM. I cannot believe how</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>fast it all is.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">> Starting D2006 in my host (XP) machine takes about 2 minutes. Starting my</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Windows 7 VM, then starting D2009 in the VM takes about 30 seconds all up.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">> I'll do some more evaluation, but so far I am extremely impressed with the</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>improvements that both MS have achieved with 7, and Embarcadero (CodeGear)</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>have achieved with D2009. I'm still flabbergasted that the VM is soooo much</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>faster than the host, especially since the VM is actually running on the</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>host.</span></span>
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<span style=
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Trevor</span></span>
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<span style=
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>_______________________________________________</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz</span></span>
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"color:#008000 ">>Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi</span></span>
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