Today's Topics: 1. Re: Digger disks and virtual memory or other solutions (Chris Kealy) Hello Chris and Listers We have been "off the air" for 7 days with an NBN failure but this time it was the old copper line coming in from the pit to the old line box on the outside of our home - we are FTTC. No phones, no internet!!! I have only just been going through emails and located Chris' enquiry. I have VMware Workstation 10.0 that I purchased before XP was retired and I started using Windows 7. I have internet access on the XP part on VMware and access to my folders that are sitting under the W7 program. This is all linked. The information for the Devices are: Memory 2GB, Processors 1, Hard Disk (IDE) 200GB, CD?DVD (IDE) Auto detect, Network Adapter NAT, USB Controller Present, Sound Card Auto detect, Printer Present, Display Auto detect. I have also free AVG Antivirus on the XP part with basic protection. So whilst it is a Virtual Machine program it still gives access to all that is under W7. I can also switch between XP and W7 which holds my Legacy genealogy program. Shared folders comes through my Documents under my user name so I have access to all folders on W7 even though I am in XP on the virtual machine. I can save the information from the Virtual Machine directly to these folders. My next foray into the Virtual Machine area will be when W7 ceases in early 2020. I will end up having to get W10 on the computer and then run W7 and XP through the virtual machine. At this stage I do not know if I have to purchase an updated version of VMware. In regard to slow speed there is none that I have found when going between the two programs. My W7 protection has its own, Malwarebytes and Vipre. My computer was built by our local computer specialist to my own specifications on what I wanted, even to the extent that it does a nightly backup of the computer to an external hard drive should anything go awry. Have a look at what VMware offers and also the other virtual machine programs that can run on your computer, discuss it with your computer technician and see what best suits you. Cheers Judi

Hello Judi, Good to hear from you. Your computer set up seems to be more elaborate than I had contemplated for my simple digger disks. However listers have raised different issues and experiences and I am putting all this information into the mix to work out where to from here. This discussion has been most useful. A simple security question- does the AVG free security for your virtual drive clash in any way with your security on the other computer drives. It seems important to protect the virtual drive from any internet nasty. Am sorry to hear that you've been without internet access. Good to have you back on the list. Thank you too for all the terms/specifications which I can relay to my computer man. I will certainly look closely at the commercial virtual software as well as Oracle. Regards Chris -----Original Message----- From: Judi DeClosey [mailto:tbears@tsn.cc] Sent: Wednesday, 24 April 2019 8:32 AM To: aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com Subject: [AUS-Tas] Re: AUS-TASMANIA Digest, Vol 14, Issue 141 Today's Topics: 1. Re: Digger disks and virtual memory or other solutions (Chris Kealy) Hello Chris and Listers We have been "off the air" for 7 days with an NBN failure but this time it was the old copper line coming in from the pit to the old line box on the outside of our home - we are FTTC. No phones, no internet!!! I have only just been going through emails and located Chris' enquiry. I have VMware Workstation 10.0 that I purchased before XP was retired and I started using Windows 7. I have internet access on the XP part on VMware and access to my folders that are sitting under the W7 program. This is all linked. The information for the Devices are: Memory 2GB, Processors 1, Hard Disk (IDE) 200GB, CD?DVD (IDE) Auto detect, Network Adapter NAT, USB Controller Present, Sound Card Auto detect, Printer Present, Display Auto detect. I have also free AVG Antivirus on the XP part with basic protection. So whilst it is a Virtual Machine program it still gives access to all that is under W7. I can also switch between XP and W7 which holds my Legacy genealogy program. Shared folders comes through my Documents under my user name so I have access to all folders on W7 even though I am in XP on the virtual machine. I can save the information from the Virtual Machine directly to these folders. My next foray into the Virtual Machine area will be when W7 ceases in early 2020. I will end up having to get W10 on the computer and then run W7 and XP through the virtual machine. At this stage I do not know if I have to purchase an updated version of VMware. In regard to slow speed there is none that I have found when going between the two programs. My W7 protection has its own, Malwarebytes and Vipre. My computer was built by our local computer specialist to my own specifications on what I wanted, even to the extent that it does a nightly backup of the computer to an external hard drive should anything go awry. Have a look at what VMware offers and also the other virtual machine programs that can run on your computer, discuss it with your computer technician and see what best suits you. Cheers Judi _______________________________________________ AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://sites.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community