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On 18/07/11 20:43, Dan Attwood wrote:
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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>
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<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>
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<div>I downloaded the latest access runtime from:</div>
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<div>and the sample database from:</div>
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<div>I then installed them to Windows XP SP 3 32bit with all the
latest updates running in Virtualbox 4.0.12</div>
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<div>the access runtime installed and ran the runtime perfectly
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How very interesting. Thanks for that. What I did was download the
trial version of some club management software called MemberBase
from a company in NZ . It required the Access 2010 runtime because
it also required me to download that in order to make it work. When
I started up the trial software I got the 'won't work here' message.
I think I assumed it was the Access runtime that was complaining
because that was doing all the work, but maybe it is inside
MemberBase that it occurs. All very annoying as it meant I had to
install it on my backup machine with its separate Win7 partition,
where it works fine. Might not buy it though - perhaps I can cobble
together a member management database from LibreOffice Base. That
might be fun.<br>
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