filePro and Oracle Virtual Box

[Kenneth Brody]

On 6/9/2014 2:02 PM, Fairlight wrote:
> I know of issues with VirtualBox in general, and would never again
> recommend it.
[...]

I run VirtualBox 4.something, and only once or twice have had a problem with 
it starting a VM.

That said, I should also point out that I use it only sporadically, and 
usually for things such as testing filePro on an XP box.  (Or the "fun" of 
watching Windows 3.1, or filePro 1.x on an MS-DOS 5 system.)

> On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:51:09AM -0700, Richard Hane thus spoke:
>>> One of my IT guys has been installing Oracle VM Virtual Box on our
>>> Win7  workstations. We are replacing the 'free' Microsoft XP Virtual.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of any issues between fpODBC 5.0.15 (network) and
>>> this  Oracle VM Virtual Box? We are receiving ODBC errors in our ERP
>>> software
>>> running under the Oracle. filePro is running under Win7. We do data updates
>>> from RP to filePro via ODBC but NOT at the times of the errors.

What specific "ODBC errors" are you getting?

Does the VM have access to the ODBC server?  A quick test here shows that my 
XP VM does, indeed, have access to the rest of our LAN, including network 
shares and printers.  I didn't try any connecting to any ODBC servers, however.

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Kenneth Brody