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Post by eric on Nov 5, 2015 14:03:04 GMT -6
Does anyone have experience with virtual machines? I can automate the running of the sim software, but it still requires focus and so doing anything else on the computer while it runs is ill advised. I don't really know anything about virtual machines but it seems like a solution to that problem. My hope is to have the sim software running on the virtual machine and being interacted with by my autohotkey macro (also running on the VM) while I can interact with the rest of the computer and not be interrupted. Is that possible? I'm going to look into it myself but if anyone can give me some tips I'd appreciate it.
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Post by ANK1990 on Nov 5, 2015 14:21:41 GMT -6
Yeah that should work. You'll need an .iso file to boot up the VM before adding software and stuff.
I was going to use Hyper-V to run two different versions of excel on the same computer.
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Post by eric on Nov 5, 2015 14:50:48 GMT -6
Yeah that should work. You'll need an .iso file to boot up the VM before adding software and stuff. I was going to use Hyper-V to run two different versions of excel on the same computer. cheers user ANK1990. Can I use an old XP reinstallation disk for the iso file, or is that something different? |
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Post by ANK1990 on Nov 5, 2015 14:56:15 GMT -6
Yeah that should work. You'll need an .iso file to boot up the VM before adding software and stuff. I was going to use Hyper-V to run two different versions of excel on the same computer. cheers user ANK1990. Can I use an old XP reinstallation disk for the iso file, or is that something different? I think that would work. Just need something to boot. I'm assuming the software works on XP (99% sure it would, it's really old). |
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Post by eric on Nov 6, 2015 10:32:37 GMT -6
ANK1990 or anyone else who's used this, in Oracle's VirtualBox there is a setting to reduce the processor resources the virtual machine can used, "Execution Cap". I've noticed a bit of a downgrade in host performance already and I'm hardly doing anything on the virtual machine, have you experimented with throttling before? How did it go?
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Post by ANK1990 on Nov 6, 2015 11:08:37 GMT -6
I mean that depends entirely on what resources you have on the machine. How many cores, how much ram, etc.
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Post by eric on Nov 6, 2015 14:30:02 GMT -6
1 core, 2 GB RAM, 2.8 GHz  |
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Post by ANK1990 on Nov 6, 2015 14:42:10 GMT -6
woof
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Post by Bankz on Nov 7, 2015 9:54:26 GMT -6
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