Shrinking VISTA tip for LV compatibility testing

[Donald]

1.000.000 licenses of VISTA sold in Belgium (10.000.000 people) so it becomes time to start testing VISTA deployments...

I'm investigating how to build a 'smaller' Virtual Machine (VM Ware) to test VISTA with a promissing tool called vLite.

Not good if you plan an upgrading the Vista VM (problems with SP1 exist) but enough for testing I guess.

Anybody who tryed this for LabVIEW 8.5 IDE?

[Val Brown]

I don't know if this is the kind of answer you want but I've been developing in/on Vista since the summer and have had no real problems with it. I deploy my built EXEs to both XP and Vista systems. On my MacBook Pro development system I use VM Ware Fusion to run XP (not Vista yet) and have only had one problem with that. My application uses a serial based instrument and it's not possible to configure the MBP using Fusion to read that serial device consistently enough to not throw errors. If I run XP under Boot Camp there is no problem.

Again, I don't know if this information is at all helpful but I've put it here FWIW.

[Donald]

QUOTE(Val Brown @ Feb 29 2008, 04:16 PM)

I don't know if this is the kind of answer you want but I've been developing in/on Vista since the summer and have had no real problems with it. I deploy my built EXEs to both XP and Vista systems. On my MacBook Pro development system I use VM Ware Fusion to run XP (not Vista yet) and have only had one problem with that. My application uses a serial based instrument and it's not possible to configure the MBP using Fusion to read that serial device consistently enough to not throw errors. If I run XP under Boot Camp there is no problem.

Again, I don't know if this information is at all helpful but I've put it here FWIW.

All 'VISTA' feeback is wellcome. At the moment I experience some minor problems with load/saving preferences under VISTA with application that were developed and designed for Win2000 and XP.

[Val Brown]

QUOTE(Donald @ Mar 3 2008, 01:49 AM)

All 'VISTA' feeback is wellcome. At the moment I experience some minor problems with load/saving preferences under VISTA with application that were developed and designed for Win2000 and XP.

If your app tries to save files within the Vista version of "Program Files" then you will have a problem, unless the program (or at least that process) runs as an administrator.

There are several work arounds, including altering your code to save such files to the appropriate "Program Data" folder(s); however, that was a bit cumbersome for me for various reasons. The solution I came up with was to create a new root folder for my application instead. That really makes a number of things easier and works for my situation, which is a bit different from what others may encounter.