Ok,
Let's start with a quiz or riddle... what takes 24 GigaBytes, 20 minutes to unpack the rar, and some initial Hacking?
Nope, it's not latest bah bah about another flu strain that's going to "kill us all" or even another endless comment about how bad the economy is....
it's the latest CTP of Visual Studio (which if you google enough, you can find the Virtual 24 GigaByte PC image).
Some things I noticed as I finally surrendered the disc space:
- Make sure you have 24 GigaBytes of free disc space (good thing you can buy TeraByte drives cheap now)
- Make sure you tweak the VMC first (turn the date/time sync for the VM to host off- see below). Do this before you start the VM! Or, you will need to start over unpacking the rar.
- Log onto the TFSSETUP user if you want to use TFS with Visual studio (for whatever reason, this user is the only one that has real access to the latest TFS installed on the VM).
- Now the double secret part... Passwords for the CTP....
Administrator: TFSSETUP, password: 1Setuptfs (use this account to explore the CTP)
Administrator: Administrator,password: P2ssw0rd
User: TFSREPORTS, password: 1Reports
User: TFSSERVICE, password: 1Service
Gee, you think that this would be published with the VM image?
The VM actually works fairly well, I was a bit surprised... I did have a couple of VS aborts when I pushed on the interface a bit...but that normal for pre-release stuff.
- One thing you will need to figure out how to over come is the lack of network access. The VM comes without a nic card configured. Not really hard to over come (I couldn't get access to the internet on the lan at work...I think it's a 'Big Brother' controls the lan at work issue...more than a real issue). Just be aware that some of the external links to MSDN, etc within VS will have issue until you turn on the Network access again.
Anyway, that's what I know so far....
The last note is how to tweak the vmc file to actually get the image to work:
Make changes to vmc file:
1. Stop the virtual machine in question.
2. Locate the .VMC file for the virtual machine.
3. Open the .VMC file in notepad.
You can use a different editor - but notepad is the safest as it is guaranteed to not change our file format to something that is incompatible with Virtual PC (which other editors have been known to do).
Find the section of the .VMC file that looks like this:
<integration>
<microsoft>
<mouse>
<allow type="boolean">true</allow>
</mouse>
Bunch of other stuff that I am skipping over to save space...
</microsoft>
</integration>
4. Change it to look like this:
<integration>
<microsoft>
<mouse>
<allow type="boolean">true</allow>
</mouse>
<components>
<host_time_sync>
<enabled type="boolean">false</enabled>
</host_time_sync>
</components>
Bunch of other stuff that I am skipping over to save space...
</microsoft>
</integration>
5. Close notepad and save the .VMC file.
6. Start the virtual machine under Virtual PC.
Have Fun!
~cse
cse
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