On Nov 13, 2007 4:35 PM, Tamas Rudnai wrote: > Hi, > > Yes, this is the version 8 I was talking about (and almost fresh Vista 32 > install). I think it was doing something with drivers when was not > responding for a very long time (only PicKit2 and ICD2 had been selected). > But the good news is that it's now installed - as I said have to leave it to > do whatever it wants to do and whatever long it takes. It shoud not be that slow. But I do notice that MPLAB 8.0 will update something during reboot. Under XP SP2, this is fine. But it causes problem when installing it under Wine/Linux. So I think Wine has a long way to go and it becomes less relevant now with VMWare or other virtulation technology on one hand and more and more native Linux applications on the other hand. > With VmWare I am not personally satisfied - using it heavily as part of my > primary job. 6.0 is a bit faster than 5.5 but has serious problems running > them parallel - ok, in my case I would not need that, only one instance of > Win box needed for running MPLAB. I just start to play with VMware player and the simple vmx generator website. I have installed OpenSolaris VM but I could not get the networking done. I have not tried to use Windows under VM since I prefer to use dual boot. I feel VMware player is still slow. > BTW: Think it over again installing Vista, at the moment I am fighting to > tell the OS that I do have enough ram (2G) with virtual memory set properly. > Probably when they will have the SP1 they will overcome of these child > diseases. > Maybe I will wait for SP2. It is said that Microsoft normally can do it right on the third time. Eg: Windows 3.0 is a success. Window 98SE is a success. I would say Windows XP SP2 is a success (initially many did not agree). So hopefully Vista SP2 will also be good. ;-) Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist