Putting my VB6 Windows Apps in the Windows 10 Store

Re:Putting my VB6 Windows Apps in the Windows 10 Store by KirinDave on Sunday October 02, 2016 @10:06PM (#12625223)

> VirtualBox and KVM/VirtManager come to mind, both work for free, VirtualBox will run on Windows computers, and both work on Linux machines. There are many others too.

I have both and have used both, and while VirtualBox is a servicable product and is free, it does not "work as well" in my experience as HyperV.

Notably, even before Docker For Windows Beta, a hand-built Docker HyperV instance was notably faster than the VBoxHeadless variant.

I'm not sure why paying money for a good virtualization package is bad. Certainly on the OSX side VMware is a truckload more stable and light years better at supporting any sort of task that has a display requirement.

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Re:Putting my VB6 Windows Apps in the Windows 10 Store by pawadu on Monday October 03, 2016 @09:29AM (#12627274)

Yes, but that applies only to very limited headless machines. As soon as you want to use graphics or peripherals hyper-v will not suffice.

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Re:Putting my VB6 Windows Apps in the Windows 10 Store by KirinDave on Monday October 03, 2016 @11:16AM (#12628002)

True, but headless machines are the subject of discussion.

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Re:Putting my VB6 Windows Apps in the Windows 10 Store by my123 on Monday October 03, 2016 @10:29AM (#12627644)

Enable the RemoteFX GPU support in the VM then.

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