You must create your ODBC connection using the 32-bit ODBC program. It is not as simple as running odbcad32.exe from the run / search bar.
you must run the following to get the actual 32-bit version;
%systemdrive%\Windows\SysWoW64\Odbcad32.exe
Populate this with the details and you should see it in the virtual center installer.
I’ve run into some issues lately with XP guests that are running off a IDE controller. If you want any kind of performance you must build your machine with the LSI drivers (parallel).
Here is a flp image with the required LSI drivers (Press F6 etc on xp boot)
I’ve got some old 250Gb drives that are starting to show their age. I’ve currently got them setup in a 3x RAID 0 config which presents about 750Gb of space.
I’ve got everything on a single partition (meh, i’m lazy). I’ve done various speed tests in the current setup (with all space allocated), but i thought i’d re-image onto a short stroke partition.
I only use about 150Gb of space on my main machine (most of my data is on another box), so i’m going to try creating a 200Gb partition to test if this provides any kind of performance boost.
So reducing my raid 0 from 750Gb to 214Gb, and here are the results…
Before with all 750Gb presented…
Same disks but short stroked to 214Gb….
Conclusion : Yip, seems like its worth it if you have the spare space. Average throughput is up by 10MB/s and seek has improved by almost a third loosing 4ms.
You will get even more of an improvement if you can use a smaller % of capacity per drive and / or more drives for your stripe.
Updated : 07/02/2010
btw – the above was without write-back cache enabled…. if i turned that on i got the following…
Get this when doing a windows update – Error number: 0xC8000408
First check the basics, ensure that windows update is a trusted site and the seucirty level is set corretely within the Zone – test with lower secuirty to see if that resolves the problem.
If that doesnt work try the following;
1) Added the user SYSTEM with every privilege to C: and subs
2) Stopped the “Automatic Updates” service
3) Renamed the C:\WINNT\SoftwareDistribution folder
4) Started the “Automatic Updates” service again
If you dont have sms / sccm client in your gold disk then GPO is the next best thing to get the SCCM client out into your environment.
This is a real nice and clean install script for IE 7 which i have modified to install SCCM. http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/installing-application-using-vbscript