Workaround - DOS under Windows 64bit

Hello

I am a s/w developer and I think it's time I had a 64 bit desktop; partly so
we can produce applications for this platform, partly so we can support our
(32bit) applications on a 64bit platform (inevitably our customers will do
this some time soon...)

I'm likely to go for a new PC with Pentium or Xeon and EM64T; (I want HT
capability and am not prepared to pay the current premium for dual-core
processor on a desktop...)

The trouble is we still develop and support text-only DOS (!) applications.
This is fine under W2K, WinXP... but I realise not so under 64bit.

So, as a workaround I though I could run up Virtual PC on my desktop, and
run up Windows 2000, XP, or even plain DOS.

Does this sound a reasonable workaround?

Are there any caveats I should look out for?

I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
--
Clive Crocker
CMC Communication Systems Ltd

Dominic
Thu Sep 29 07:08:37 CDT 2005

VirtualPC does not run on XP64: there are no 64 bit drivers for it yet.

You can use Virtual Server, VMWare Workstation 5 or DOSBox if this meets
your needs.


"Clive Crocker" <CliveCrocker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8FF45649-AB90-4715-A4B1-C78185C54E07@microsoft.com...
> Hello
>
> I am a s/w developer and I think it's time I had a 64 bit desktop; partly
> so
> we can produce applications for this platform, partly so we can support
> our
> (32bit) applications on a 64bit platform (inevitably our customers will do
> this some time soon...)
>
> I'm likely to go for a new PC with Pentium or Xeon and EM64T; (I want HT
> capability and am not prepared to pay the current premium for dual-core
> processor on a desktop...)
>
> The trouble is we still develop and support text-only DOS (!)
> applications.
> This is fine under W2K, WinXP... but I realise not so under 64bit.
>
> So, as a workaround I though I could run up Virtual PC on my desktop, and
> run up Windows 2000, XP, or even plain DOS.
>
> Does this sound a reasonable workaround?
>
> Are there any caveats I should look out for?
>
> I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
> --
> Clive Crocker
> CMC Communication Systems Ltd

CliveCrocker
Thu Sep 29 07:22:01 CDT 2005

Thanks for the tip; I had not realised this limitation.

I was going to run up VS2005 on another server anyway; maybe that's a better
solution; or otherwise VS2005 on my desktop, as you suggest.

--
Clive Crocker
CMC Communication Systems Ltd


"Dominic Payer" wrote:

> VirtualPC does not run on XP64: there are no 64 bit drivers for it yet.
>
> You can use Virtual Server, VMWare Workstation 5 or DOSBox if this meets
> your needs.
>
>
> "Clive Crocker" <CliveCrocker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8FF45649-AB90-4715-A4B1-C78185C54E07@microsoft.com...
> > Hello
> >
> > I am a s/w developer and I think it's time I had a 64 bit desktop; partly
> > so
> > we can produce applications for this platform, partly so we can support
> > our
> > (32bit) applications on a 64bit platform (inevitably our customers will do
> > this some time soon...)
> >
> > I'm likely to go for a new PC with Pentium or Xeon and EM64T; (I want HT
> > capability and am not prepared to pay the current premium for dual-core
> > processor on a desktop...)
> >
> > The trouble is we still develop and support text-only DOS (!)
> > applications.
> > This is fine under W2K, WinXP... but I realise not so under 64bit.
> >
> > So, as a workaround I though I could run up Virtual PC on my desktop, and
> > run up Windows 2000, XP, or even plain DOS.
> >
> > Does this sound a reasonable workaround?
> >
> > Are there any caveats I should look out for?
> >
> > I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
> > --
> > Clive Crocker
> > CMC Communication Systems Ltd
>
>
>

Charlie
Thu Sep 29 22:44:05 CDT 2005

You need the beta of Virtual Server SP1/R2 to run on x64. The released
version will not install.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64

Clive Crocker wrote:
> Thanks for the tip; I had not realised this limitation.
>
> I was going to run up VS2005 on another server anyway; maybe that's a
> better solution; or otherwise VS2005 on my desktop, as you suggest.
>
>
>> VirtualPC does not run on XP64: there are no 64 bit drivers for it yet.
>>
>> You can use Virtual Server, VMWare Workstation 5 or DOSBox if this meets
>> your needs.
>>
>>
>> "Clive Crocker" <CliveCrocker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:8FF45649-AB90-4715-A4B1-C78185C54E07@microsoft.com...
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I am a s/w developer and I think it's time I had a 64 bit desktop;
>>> partly so
>>> we can produce applications for this platform, partly so we can support
>>> our
>>> (32bit) applications on a 64bit platform (inevitably our customers will
>>> do this some time soon...)
>>>
>>> I'm likely to go for a new PC with Pentium or Xeon and EM64T; (I want HT
>>> capability and am not prepared to pay the current premium for dual-core
>>> processor on a desktop...)
>>>
>>> The trouble is we still develop and support text-only DOS (!)
>>> applications.
>>> This is fine under W2K, WinXP... but I realise not so under 64bit.
>>>
>>> So, as a workaround I though I could run up Virtual PC on my desktop,
>>> and run up Windows 2000, XP, or even plain DOS.
>>>
>>> Does this sound a reasonable workaround?
>>>
>>> Are there any caveats I should look out for?
>>>
>>> I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
>>> --
>>> Clive Crocker
>>> CMC Communication Systems Ltd

Andre
Sat Oct 01 18:41:38 CDT 2005

Try Virtual Server 2005 R2 which has native support for x64:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/evaluation/sp1beta.mspx
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"Clive Crocker" <CliveCrocker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8FF45649-AB90-4715-A4B1-C78185C54E07@microsoft.com...
> Hello
>
> I am a s/w developer and I think it's time I had a 64 bit desktop; partly
> so
> we can produce applications for this platform, partly so we can support
> our
> (32bit) applications on a 64bit platform (inevitably our customers will do
> this some time soon...)
>
> I'm likely to go for a new PC with Pentium or Xeon and EM64T; (I want HT
> capability and am not prepared to pay the current premium for dual-core
> processor on a desktop...)
>
> The trouble is we still develop and support text-only DOS (!)
> applications.
> This is fine under W2K, WinXP... but I realise not so under 64bit.
>
> So, as a workaround I though I could run up Virtual PC on my desktop, and
> run up Windows 2000, XP, or even plain DOS.
>
> Does this sound a reasonable workaround?
>
> Are there any caveats I should look out for?
>
> I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
> --
> Clive Crocker
> CMC Communication Systems Ltd