Subject Re: [ib-support] File system
Author Daniel Rail
At 25/02/2002 10:21 AM, you wrote:
>On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Claudio Valderrama C. wrote:
>
>
> > Delphi, like most high-level programs, doesn't care about the file system.
> > My machine uses NT4 with NTFS. Inside NT, I have installed VMWare. On a
> > VMWare virtual machine, I installed NT4 again, formatted with NTFS. Inside
> > that, I installed Delphi 1, the 16-bit BDE and there're no adverse
> symptoms.
> > >>From that virtual machine, I connect the 16-bit BDE to the "real",
> outer NT
> > running Firebird, while using the "real" machine also to connect to the
> same
> > db with a Delphi 3 made program.
>
>I have tried my 16 bit program running on NT 4 Workstation on local
>Interbase 4. But I dont get what VMWare is for. Is it to load another OS
>simultaneously?

Yes it is. It's creates a Virtual Machine within your OS for another OS to
run.


Daniel Rail
Senior System Engineer
ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.accramed.ca)