[Info-vax] OpenVMS on x86 and Virtual Machines -- An Observation

[Craig A. Berry]

On 1/31/19 11:57 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2019-01-31 kl. 18:47, skrev Jan-Erik Söderholm:
>> Den 2019-01-31 kl. 18:31, skrev Dave Froble:


>> I have Win10 64bit on my laptop. To be able to support and change
>> two old VB6 applications (the VB6 dev environment has some issues on
>> win10) I installed Virtual Box, created an instance, installed WinXP
>> (directly from the original CD to the new VM instance) and then
>> installed the VB6 IDE there. Worked just fine. All files are
>> accessable from both the WinXP and Win10 environments.
>>
> 
> Well, the files within the VM container file are not accessable
> directly from the Win10 host, but the VM has access to a couple of
> shared folders where the application are stored. Just the usual
> "connect to remote folder" from WinXP to Win10...

Which likely involves using SMBv1, which no properly configured Win10
system will allow these days.