Thanks John for your thoughts.

Are you saying that you daily use the linux platform with VirtualBox, and within that have XP installed and use that for your needed daily VFP development?



Mel, I use linux daily and do all my development of VFP, PYTHON, JYTHON,PYLONS, MSSQL, POSTGRES using virtualbox. I have several customers that have different version of VFP, MSSQL. So I use the same setup that the customer has by turning on the correct versions in virtualbox. For example I have a client using Accountmate 6 with lots of mods connecting to MSSQL (I forget the version but it's old). That means I fire up XP with vfp6 and windows server 2000 with an old version of MSSQL. BTW I normally have most the data for the clients too.

There is little to no performance issues. I have 2TB's of disk space (that's two disks these days) and just recently upgraded to a i7core (early xmas present). If I need windows 7 I just turn it on, same for 'Vista', or any thing else windows has to offer. Like I said the ONLY issue I have discovered is the complete lack of firewire support and a few USB issues. With USB I couldn't get the EPAD to work and a windows CE device to work.

Just purchased two monitors too. Now that's cool because I have XP on one (or two monitors if I want) and SQL Enterprise running on the other monitor. I make a change in VFP and immediately see if it's working on the server. Debugging is even cooler.

Johnf