Hello,
I have old virtualbox and win7 VM to handle old C4b/C55/C63 PE IDE’s and applications. I’am facing probems to update virtualbox without crashing the vm or having the add-ons working properly.
To replace vbox, I’ve installed vmware worksation (17.6) and Win10 (21H2), activated the NTVDM feature and set the registry key NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation to 0 (long filename management: if not long my app filename exceeding 8.3 won’t compile). It seems to work ok then.
Is such an environnement stable/works properly for you ? Have you some experience returns ?
VMware Player/Workstation any version, XP SP3.
In clarion there is a .ini setting where you can enable long filename use.
I use XP simply because later versions of windows x32 had a embed source window focus issue, that exists in XP periodically and nearly all the time on later versions of Windows.
The problem is the window end up behind the IDE and its hard to get focus to the source window again.
This makes the scroll wheel on the mouse work in the C6 IDE.
If you want to run multiple copies of the C6 IDE, then change all the C6 shortcuts so the option to run in seperate memory space is ticked and run the clarion template registry as Read Only.
When loading an app, wait for it to load to the app gen tree before starting another instance of the C6 IDE. Same goes for generation and compilation, only do that one at a time, you can not have multiple instances of the C6 IDE generating and compiling at the same time as other instances because I suspect its using shared memory from 16bit.
Other than that you shouldnt have any problem running instances of C6 IDE.
I used to run c6 in a WinXP VM in VBOX 6, and then upgraded to VBOX 7. Never had a problem with any issues with the VM crashing.
But ultimately you have to use what works for you, and if that’s vmware then go for it.
I don’t know if it can help but I personally used virtualbox with windows 8 32 bit, it works, but for several years I have been using Hiper-V with windows 10 32 bit and everything works perfectly. I compile and run topscan when needed, fast compilation with Host windows 10 professional 64 bit.
I made finally a Win7 VM with the last release of vmware workstation, vmwaretools are well supported. vmware seems to be a bit faster than virtualbox.
FreeWheel software is marvelous for my old C6 app, than you Rich !
I keep my Win 10 VM on side but it works (slower than the first one). I had to keep the registry key NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation off to compile successfully app with long file names as:
[Application]
UseLongFilenames=on
in clarion ini file did not help.
I no longer develop with clarion (since 8 years) but an old customer still have tps data. To help him, I will try to migrate its tps data to postgresql DB (using C10 PE Gold the last i have).