Hi,

I just want to answer the Visual Studio one:
So far i have tried to virtualise many development environments. Some with greater success (visual studio, eclipse, ...) and some no success at all (Nokia Carbide, ...). As some do actualy work considering the editing part (including helpfiles, sdk availability etc) the debugger is one of the things i never got operational. The debugger hooks into the kernel at some deep levels, which for some reason trigger various, but always undesired, behaviour...

So for me development environments are still install locally. Since my last system reinstall however each in it's own VM, so they don't disturb eachother (all those open source IDE's are somehow eclipse based it seems and they tend to break eachothers settings).

I never even tried SQL server, any version... Mainly because it is (name says it) a server... And i tend to not virtualise servers for stability and performance reasons. I would not like to be the one explaining why the important data in the db is gone after someone sweeped all sandboxes... And yes: it is part of the VS(pro) install, but never fired it up... My feeling tells me: I think it should be possible, as it installs only user mode stuff (and some background services).

Kind regards,
Michael Baars

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