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11-30-2008
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| | Virtual PC Application for VPN? I admittedly haven't played with Virtual PC but I'm looking for some opinions if it will solve my problem before I commit time to download start playing with it. I've have 2 - possibly 3 - customers that I need to remotely access thru VPN. I'm using 2 separate laptops for the existing customers but would like to combine both onto one computer. Of course, each customer uses a different VPN software and my experience to date is I can't load two different brands of VPN software under one OS. Instead of doing multiple bootable partitions on a hard drive is it possible/easier to use Virtual PC to setup another 2 XP virtual OS's and install each brand of VPN software on each? I appreciate your time and opinions in helping me out. |
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11-30-2008
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| | Re: Virtual PC Application for VPN? "PLCcoder" <PLCcoder@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:AF8F8097-87CD-4243-B9E0-5D626D989310@xxxxxx Quote: > I've have 2 - possibly 3 - customers that I need to remotely access thru > VPN. I'm using 2 separate laptops for the existing customers but would > like > to combine both onto one computer. Of course, each customer uses a > different > VPN software and my experience to date is I can't load two different > brands > of VPN software under one OS. Instead of doing multiple bootable > partitions > on a hard drive is it possible/easier to use Virtual PC to setup another 2 > XP > virtual OS's and install each brand of VPN software on each? I appreciate > your time and opinions in helping me out. machine is completely separate from all the others and, provided the VPC software doesn't require any sort of advanced hardware (and I can't imagine why it would), then this should work perfectly... Obviously, you will need separate licences for each installation of XP as well as plenty of RAM on the host PC... -- Mark Rae ASP.NET MVP http://www.markrae.net |
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12-01-2008
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| | Re: Virtual PC Application for VPN? "PLCcoder" <PLCcoder@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:AF8F8097-87CD-4243-B9E0-5D626D989310@xxxxxx Quote: > Instead of doing multiple bootable partitions > on a hard drive is it possible/easier to use Virtual PC to setup another 2 > XP > virtual OS's and install each brand of VPN software on each? I appreciate > your time and opinions in helping me out. |
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12-01-2008
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| | Re: Virtual PC Application for VPN? Thanks for your answer Mark - One more question - will I need separate licenced copies for each virtual version of XP I install? If it's on the same CPU - shouldn't I be able to use the same XP disk for each new virtual OS or doesn't that work? "Mark Rae [MVP]" wrote: Quote: > "PLCcoder" <PLCcoder@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:AF8F8097-87CD-4243-B9E0-5D626D989310@xxxxxx > Quote: > > I've have 2 - possibly 3 - customers that I need to remotely access thru > > VPN. I'm using 2 separate laptops for the existing customers but would > > like > > to combine both onto one computer. Of course, each customer uses a > > different > > VPN software and my experience to date is I can't load two different > > brands > > of VPN software under one OS. Instead of doing multiple bootable > > partitions > > on a hard drive is it possible/easier to use Virtual PC to setup another 2 > > XP > > virtual OS's and install each brand of VPN software on each? I appreciate > > your time and opinions in helping me out. > In theory, there should be no problem with this approach - each virtual > machine is completely separate from all the others and, provided the VPC > software doesn't require any sort of advanced hardware (and I can't imagine > why it would), then this should work perfectly... > > Obviously, you will need separate licences for each installation of XP as > well as plenty of RAM on the host PC... > > > -- > Mark Rae > ASP.NET MVP > http://www.markrae.net > > |
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12-01-2008
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| | Re: Virtual PC Application for VPN? "PLCcoder" <PLCcoder@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:2F262A4B-1DFD-42BD-9393-AA3CF2516F5E@xxxxxx Quote: Quote: >> Obviously, you will need separate licences for each installation of XP > One more question - will I need separate licenced copies for each virtual > version of XP I install? -- Mark Rae ASP.NET MVP http://www.markrae.net |
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12-02-2008
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| | Re: Virtual PC Application for VPN? On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:15:01 -0800, PLCcoder <PLCcoder@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >"Mark Rae [MVP]" wrote: > Quote: >> "PLCcoder" <PLCcoder@xxxxxx> wrote in message >> news:AF8F8097-87CD-4243-B9E0-5D626D989310@xxxxxx >> Quote: >> > I've have 2 - possibly 3 - customers that I need to remotely access thru >> > VPN. I'm using 2 separate laptops for the existing customers but would >> > like >> > to combine both onto one computer. Of course, each customer uses a >> > different >> > VPN software and my experience to date is I can't load two different >> > brands >> > of VPN software under one OS. Instead of doing multiple bootable >> > partitions >> > on a hard drive is it possible/easier to use Virtual PC to setup another 2 >> > XP >> > virtual OS's and install each brand of VPN software on each? I appreciate >> > your time and opinions in helping me out. >> In theory, there should be no problem with this approach - each virtual >> machine is completely separate from all the others and, provided the VPC >> software doesn't require any sort of advanced hardware (and I can't imagine >> why it would), then this should work perfectly... >> >> Obviously, you will need separate licences for each installation of XP as >> well as plenty of RAM on the host PC... >> > One more question - will I need separate licenced copies for each virtual >version of XP I install? If it's on the same CPU - shouldn't I be able to >use the same XP disk for each new virtual OS or doesn't that work? > to have a separate license for Windows for *each* of these PC:s. -- Bo Berglund (Sweden) |
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