Fan-less PC solutions.

[Sky Blue Lou]

You took a wrong turn!
I did the same thing. He was confused as all hell but on the second attempt I got to the right place and got the code needed.
I'm afraid I can't remember the specifics of the menu options but If you end up talking to a human, you went off road.

Okay then. I may try again at some point but I just installed Win7 on the old box and my firewire interface still works so yay!

 

[TalismanRich]

To be honest, I forget how I activated it. I have a couple of copies of XP and Vista with serial #s, and there was a process I had to do to take the activation. I didn't bother with calling MS. I figured they wouldn't be much help. The machine will never see the internet. So I don't worry about getting hacked. But I will say that with a 500GB SSD and 4GB of DDR3 RAM, the system flies! Games load in seconds. Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, Links LS. They run great.

I tried that and couldn't get it activated. How did you get around that?

 

[drtechno]

It is a large data center and the host creates the OS (Windows or Linux) on the machine and allocates X amount of resources (RAM, CPU and storage), then it shares those resources to compute. Then you can just RDP (software that allows you to connect to the host) and install or use applications on the virtual machine.

There are lots of different options. One option is to create a virtual machine on your computer (that is the pre-version of cloud computing) and install an OS and applications and run the OS inside the host machine. Virtual Box That concept is the same as a cloud based machine, but it runs on your computer. If your computer is powerful enough, you can have several different OSes on the same computer. The trick is to interact with the hardware, so routing sound input (like an audio box), configuring for intensive GPU usage (like CAD), becomes more problematic as that software talks directly to the hardware (like ASIO which bypasses most of Windows OS audio services).

If you wanted to do something like that with audio programs, Docker would be more efficient as it wouldn't have to spin up a copy of the os.

 

[DM60]

If you wanted to do something like that with audio programs, Docker would be more efficient as it wouldn't have to spin up a copy of the os.

I would have to test that, for example it states:

Can I pass through a USB device to a container?​

It is not possible to pass through a USB device (or a serial port) to a container as it requires support at the hypervisor level.

At a quick read, that kills an audio interface. Might be worth a look, but it is still managing images, which an image contains an OS. On the surface, it looks like mainly another version of VMware or other image based virtual machines. But I didn't read too deep into it.

 

[drtechno]

I would have to test that, for example it states:

Can I pass through a USB device to a container?​

It is not possible to pass through a USB device (or a serial port) to a container as it requires support at the hypervisor level.

At a quick read, that kills an audio interface. Might be worth a look, but it is still managing images, which an image contains an OS. On the surface, it looks like mainly another version of VMware or other image based virtual machines. But I didn't read too deep into it.

One real question is,
why post anything about this in this thread?
Because it has nothing to do with the fanless PC solutions I'm trying to find input about.
And The Off Topic Windows XP Post are Not welcomed Either.

 

[DM60]

One real question is,
why post anything about this in this thread?
Because it has nothing to do with the fanless PC solutions I'm trying to find input about.
And The Off Topic Windows XP Post are Not welcomed Either.

Just responding to your post. Sometimes one topic leads to another. No need to get upset.