<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br>I've just installed some windoze software (including the Access 2010 runtime) to my VirtualBox-hosted XP and it popped a very bald message 'This software will not run on a virtual machine'.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>when I read this this morning it didn't seem right - a virtual machine after all should appear any different to the OS then a physical one. So I've just tested it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I downloaded the latest access runtime from:</div><div><br></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=10910">http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=10910</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>and the sample database from:</div><div> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=21733">http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=21733</a></div><div><br></div><div>I then installed them to Windows XP SP 3 32bit with all the latest updates running in Virtualbox 4.0.12</div>
<div><br></div><div>the access runtime installed and ran the runtime perfectly and let me open and play with the database.</div></div>