Anyone had GF running in a Virtual Machine?

[DJ]

Hi,

I am curious as to whether anyone has had GF running within a Virtual Machine using a porduct such as VMware or Microsoft Virtual PC/Server?

I have tried within VMware but I could not get GF to take input from Winamp, although the native Winamp AVS vis works fine. GF just puts up a black screen and in standalone mode it will start but not take the audio feed from WA.

Why would running under a VM be a good thing you are asking? If you have played with VMs before you know the answer to this. VM technology allows you to run up lots of operating systems and application builds on the same host in isolation of each other. Which as a developer means that you can develop/test software under a variety of controlled conditions. It is easy to roll back to known points using snapshots. I would like to have GF running within a VM so that as new versions come out it is easy to test integration with other software and if need be to roll back to previous versions by restoring a snapshot. btw - MS Virtual Server is a free download at the moment.

Cheers

[andy55]

Hi,

I am curious as to whether anyone has had GF running within a Virtual Machine using a porduct such as VMware or Microsoft Virtual PC/Server?

I have tried within VMware but I could not get GF to take input from Winamp, although the native Winamp AVS vis works fine. GF just puts up a black screen and in standalone mode it will start but not take the audio feed from WA.

Why would running under a VM be a good thing you are asking? If you have played with VMs before you know the answer to this. VM technology allows you to run up lots of operating systems and application builds on the same host in isolation of each other. Which as a developer means that you can develop/test software under a variety of controlled conditions. It is easy to roll back to known points using snapshots. I would like to have GF running within a VM so that as new versions come out it is easy to test integration with other software and if need be to roll back to previous versions by restoring a snapshot. btw - MS Virtual Server is a free download at the moment.

Cheers

Given that GF Platinum lets you run GF on both Windows and Mac OS X, you shouldn't need to use any VM ware to G-Force. For the winamp back screen issue, try G-Force 3.5.2.

As for version snapshots -- you may just want to keep a folder of versions that you download, etc.

Andy

[DJ]

Hi,

Just a follow up to my previous post. Thanks Andy I now have GF 3.5.3 running well inside a VMware virtual machine.

Cheers
DJ