Re: Best Vista Setup for Development

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Karl E. Peterson wrote:
Robert Comer <bobcomer-removeme-@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That could be useful, if you were working directly with USB devices, but
I'm not downloading my photos to a VM! <g>
It'd be useful for a lot of things, scanners, pen drives, external disks,
Mobile devices, tape, camera's <g>, ...

I guess I haven't found the need. As long as the Host can get to it...


Such VMs wouldn't be much help if you were testing software in any aspect that
required USB communication, like theft protection, comparing or moving files ...

I can think of a few. I had an auto-synch app a while back which was supposed to
recognize my camera memory cards on insertion and automatically archive everything
new or updated.

VMs seem to me to have little advantage *unless* you want the "host" OS to be
running on the same hardware at the same time. At least so far, I would prefer
actual hardware under the OS I'm testing on. I hope to make time soon to test
the offerings from Acronis, with which I should be able to make a stack of bootable
optical discs for my test box, for (hopefully) a very simple image-boot-test cycle.


Bob
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