virtual-machine

How to configure windows mobile emulated device on a virtual-machine(VPC2007) so it can see local network?

I have VirtualPC 2007 virtual machine with VS2008 and Windows Professional 6.5 Emulator image. Using vxUtil I see that my emulated mobile device has IP 192.168.5.17 and from it I can ping 192.168.5.7 (that is IP of a virtual machine where it is installed emulator mobile device). From virtual machine I can ping 192.168.5.1 (domain server...

What's the benefit of Parrot VM for end-users?

What's the benefit of the Parrot Virtual Machine for end-users (software developers)? For example, if I could program against Perl or Python directly why would I bother programming for them under Parrot? ...

Are Pixel Benders Filters runing inside flash rendered by AS3 VM or by some special VM?

By now all my projects created for pixel bender run slower than ported into C and than thru alchymy to AS3. So If Adobe uses for PBJ filters some special VM I can hope that one day my PBJ filters will owerrun same filters ported thru alchymy... Am I wright? Are Pixel Benders Filters runing inside flash rendered by AS3 VM or by some spec...

Python VM arguments

OS:WinXP Python 2.6 A Python project in Eclipse, if you go to 'run configuration' arguments tab. There's a section for 'Python VM arguments (Python.exe)'. Does anyone know where to find a reference for what arguments does Python VM have? I tried keyword 'Python (VM or Virtual Machine) arguments' but couldn't find it. Thanks. ...

Book Recommendation to learn more about Application Virtual Machines

I have always been intrigued and mystified by Virtual Machines and how they operate. I want to learn more about the inner workings of a virtual machine. Are there any good books on Virtual Machines/Virtual machine designs/Tour of a sample machine? How do I go about studying one? Do I pick up a spec for the JVM or start with the LLVM?...

How do I move multiple parsed values from a log file to an Access Database? C#

I am working on a program that transfers a file from a CentOS VM, and parses the file for multiple Start, finish, and host ID values. After this the values are then moved into an Access database for tracking purposes. So far I am able to pull a file down from the CentOS VM and parse it for the desired values. However, I have run into a f...

Is it misleading to say that intermediate code runs in a virtual machine

If I am correct in understanding what I've read a virtual machine is essentially a compiler for intermediate code. But it is never said that Delphi (as an example of unmanaged code) runs in its compiler. Would it be less confusing to just describe a virtual machine as a compiler? ...

Memory usage in the Java Virtual Machine and optimisation

I have been developing a small Java utility that uses two frameworks: Encog and Jetty to provide neural network functionality for a website. The code is 'finished' in that it does everything it needs to do, but I have some problems with memory usage. When running on my development machine the memory usage seems to fluctuate between abou...

Accessing Mongrel on Ubuntu within a Windows VM

Hej, i'm developing on an Ubuntu 10.04 Version. I'm using Mongrel 1.1.5. To test crossbrowser compability i want to access my local server directly out of a VM (Virtual Box OSE) runnning Windows XP Prof. Network connection is established, a ping from Windows to ubuntu shows that the connection is established, but when i try to access ...

Best VM setup for cross platform & multiple machine development

Hi all. I'm looking to clean up my development environments into discreet virtual machines, that I can use against multiple hosts. An ideal situation would be the ability to store the virtual machines on a central server, with both local streaming and remote access. For instance if I am working on my shoddy old laptop, I would only want ...

Is .NET VM a compiler or an interpreter?

Does the .NET's Virtual Machine compiles the CIL bytecode (and then execute the code at the lowest level - CPU assembler), or it is an interpreter (that reads the following instructions and execute them) ? ...

Webmin on Fedora Virtual Machine

I have a Fedora Virtual Machine (installed in VMWare Server 2) and I installed Webmin on it. I have to access Webmin from my browser (installed on my computer) using the ip address. something like: http://ip_address/Webmin. Does someone know what configurations should I make, in order to make this run? I don't have much experience with l...

How to Compress or write zero's /dev/zero to a swap file?

We have a few linux based (Centos) virtual machines which are to be used as distributable virtual appliances. We want to be able to compress them as much as possible for distribution ( via tar.gz, zip, etc). We've removed all unnecessary files (.log's, /tmp/*, /var/log/, etc) and have written /dev/zero to the free space on the disk....

Running OSX MAMP test server on VirtualBox Windows 7

I have MAMP server and several test sites installed on my OSX 10.6.3. I just installed Windows 7 on a VirtualBox virtual machine. I have managed to successfully share folders to the Windows installation, but I am wondering if I can run my MAMP sites in Windows without installing a different Localhost there. Does anyone know if this is p...

Automatic parallelization

What is your opinion regarding a project that will try to take a code and split it to threads automatically(maybe compile time, probably in runtime). Take a look at the code below: for(int i=0;i<100;i++) sum1 += rand(100) for(int j=0;j<100;j++) sum2 += rand(100)/2 This kind of code can automatically get split to 2 different thr...

Programming under virtual machine - pros and cons

I'm an Ubuntu Linux user and I use Win XP only for my work purposes. Lately I set up a virtual machine with XP + Visual Studio 2008 (powered by kvm-quemu). My questions are: Have anyone tried to work efficiently under environment set on VM? Are there any performance issues? For example, does slightly worse performance under VM af...

Does PHP have a virtual machine like Java?

Does PHP have a virtual machine like Java? ...

Switching User Contexts in Visual Studio and TFS Source Control

While developing ASP.net applications on a Windows 7 machine in Visual Studio. Sometimes I need to do testing for Internet Explorer 6 compatibility. The way I test IE 6 is I have virtual machine running on my local machine. The easiest way I could figure out to access development on my parent development machine was to switch my ASP.ne...

Is there any profiler like visual studio profiler that works under Virtual Machine?

Hello, We are using ec2 lab to work on our product. The product currently I am working is written in LISP, Java, C/C++. It has a lot of components. My task is to profile it find performance bottleneck. I can load the C/C++ components in vs2008ts to compile it. As its a team system version, I can analyze it too. But the problem is visual...

Is it possible to create Portable VM?

I want to know that is it possible to create a fully portable virtual machine using any of the VMWare like products? My objective is to create a virtual machine (XP as guest OS), install some app in it, put the vm in a usb2 drive (performance is not a matter), and run it in any windows os (xp, vista, 7) without installing anything in hos...