[Discussion] eCS and other woes

[Douglas Clark]

>On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:36:09 +0900, Kev wrote:
>Doesn't S-VISTA fit in here somewhere?  Perhaps I'm well out of date?

S-Vista is also a good virtual machine. I have both s-Vista and Virtual PC. I use 
VPC rather than sVista mainly because VPC has a feature that allows it to be 
"turned off" without having to reboot the virtual PC when you "turn it on" again - it 
works very much like hibernate on a laptop. S-Vista (at least the version that I 
messed with) doesn't have that feature. Other than that (and one possible bug in 
S-Vista - see below) I think either one is good. However I don't use a virtual 
machine very much so I may not be a good judge.

The possible bug with S-Vista is: when some component of the S-Vista networking 
is installed apparently the LAN/network has errors when copying files across the 
network. Errors that are not reported but show up as bad check-sums on large files 
that are copied. Paul Curtis (creator of CSSDIR) found this when testing some 
months ago. And he is the better source for which S-Vista components need to be 
installed for this to happen and whether it was fixed or not. Since I had already 
decided to use VPC anyway for the reason listed above I didn't spend much time 
investigating this issue.
Thanks

Douglas Clark