posted on Saturday, October 28, 2006 5:47 PM
by
Benjy
Misadventures in the Orcas world
For some reason i got bitten by the Orcas bug and downloaded the CTP. Curiosity got the better of me. I should have kept quiet and stayed with my R&D into VS2005. So what were the problems?
First thing is that the Orcas CTP (September) is a differencing disk and the instructions for use are for VPC and not Virtual Server so if you use VServer (R2) like me, it can stop you for a while. It turns out that VPC prompts one for the location of the base disk whereas with VS you have to use the INSPECT option and then it gives you the chance to correct the location of the "missing base disk". You also have to set the base VHD to read only otherwise VS throws some nasty error message about not being able to use it. To read some posts of mine on the whole sordid tale, look here.
Oh and before i forget, for people in the UK please note that the keyboard settings are US which means that to get the password p@ssw0rd correct you have to use SHIFT -F2 for the @symbol. This is the area where i got stuck with the TFS VPC several months ago and at that time no one told me about this so i had to forget about testing the VPC for that product as i could never log in successfully.
Once thats done, in theory you should have no problems, but unfortunately in my case, the VM simply threw core dumps all over the place when i started it up. I tried with a fresh download of the CTP and again no joy. Im going to have to try it with VPC now and find a workstation where i can test that out. Or perhaps i wont bother. After all theres so much to learn in Whidbey and theyve got a brand new SDK out with the full version of the DSL kit etc so that should be enough to keep me amused for a while.