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@rickd wrote:
I’m having difficulty with the workaround…
When I try to run the first executable file, instead of having the option to continue, I am only given the option to cancel and exit out of the installer. I’ve tried running it on a Vista machine that I have, but it extracts the setup.exe file to a temporary location that I’m unable to locate when I search. Running the debugging tools on the first executable file errors out on me at some point having to do with an nt*.dll file. Any suggestions?
Got this resolved. The setup files are dumped into a temp folder on the C: root.
I also discovered in the process that I hadn’t yet activated my copy of R2… odd.
Awesome! The installer was insistent that I install JSE… but JRE seems to work nicely. Should have thought to try that myself 😳
I’ve run into a ton of problems like this… the whole “run as a normal user” thing doesn’t quite pass the ‘just works’ muster, IMHO.
What I’m currently doing is running my ‘normal’ user as an Administrator. By that, I mean my productivity user. Any actual work that needs to get done gets done using this account. I have an account called ‘research’ that is standard user, and is reserved for all activities that could open the system to vulnerabilities (web browsing, primarily). It’s a server OS, so I can switch users with very little pain. It’s also good for time management, as web-browsing can be a black hole of a time sync 🙂
@timofcourse wrote:
@rickd wrote:
I’m using 1680×1050 using the latest Catalyst drivers, and haven’t run into any problems, although performance does seem worse than it did on 7.
Are you running Core i5 or i7 and have Hyper-V enabled?
i7 with an HD 5870. Hyper-V is not currently enabled, although, when it was enabled, it worked fine (hyper-v kind of hosed my networking, for reasons I haven’t yet determined).
I’m using 1680×1050 using the latest Catalyst drivers, and haven’t run into any problems, although performance does seem worse than it did on 7.
Why would VMWare be better for Windows apps than running a Hyper-V installation of a Windows OS?
I’m still doing my research on this topic, but from what I’ve gathered so far:
1) Hyper-V is awesome for running servers-inside-of-servers, especially for people who are learning rather than pros. I can test out new server roles inside of a Hyper-V VM, without having to worry about corrupting my precious main installation.
2) Hyper-V is worthless for Linux, unless you are using it for SLES or something. In the latter case, Hyper-V is a godsend, as it allows me to use Linux services for server roles that I’m not as comfortable with the Windows equivalent (I’ve got lots of experience with Apache, less with IIS).
That said, Hyper-V royally screwed my networking, to the point where it was unusable and I had to disable the role. A bit of poking around on the web has turned up a plethora of similar complaints, with ‘idunnomustbedoingsomethingwrong’ being MS’s only response. Very annoying.
Bottom line so far:
– Know your needs before you choose any solution.
– VMWare is best for guest OS’s like Linux, when you want to run certain apps that don’t have any equivalent on Windows (I just wish I could do OS/X, so that I could use Papers 🙁 )
– For games… don’t use either, and run as admin on your native box.
– Hyper-V WILL blow VMware out of the water, performance-wise, as the technology matures. MS is investing heavily in virtualization, and you can bet that they’ll apply the same business strategy in this department as they have everywhere else: HVVM’s will be able to exploit Windows internals, while MS will make it increasingly difficult for other companies to do the same, creating a performance chasm between the different options.** Edit: this was intended for the other HV vs VMWare thread. Sorry guys.
The beta is working fine for me, with one odd quirk: the icon it chooses to use for a particular application is ostensibly random. Right now I’m running Outlook 2010… which, in the taskbar, is showing up as Outlook — but was earlier showing up as Powerpoint. I closed down Outlook, opened up Word — now Word is showing up as Powerpoint (in the taskbar). I open up Outlook while Word is still running, and now I have the correct icon for Outlook, but Word is still Powerpoint.
Joys of Beta software….
I’m having difficulty with the workaround…
When I try to run the first executable file, instead of having the option to continue, I am only given the option to cancel and exit out of the installer. I’ve tried running it on a Vista machine that I have, but it extracts the setup.exe file to a temporary location that I’m unable to locate when I search. Running the debugging tools on the first executable file errors out on me at some point having to do with an nt*.dll file. Any suggestions?
