[Gambas-user] Gambas3 & andLinux on WinXP

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 09.04.2012 12:09, schrieb Randall Morgan:
> I've used virtualbox from Sun Micro for my Windows Vista and 7 laptops to
> run Linux. Makes it simple and takes up only a little more space.
>

Though it's slightly off-topic here :-) I don't hesitate to ask back 
here. In our environment in the firm with Win7 only running on one 
machine in the account office for the accounting programs and the rest 
running on a Linux server with LTSP and thin clients, it would be quite 
useful to have one of the Gambas programs for the Win7 machine. Now I 
have to write programs for Win and Linux if I want access to data on the 
server from both places.

So I tried to use Virtual Box as a thin client, and it runs quite nice, 
but then it pauses (and seems to wait for something) every two minutes 
or so. This pausing lasts for 15 - 50 seconds, so the solution proved 
unusable.

In my case, a virtual machine as a thin client is not the only way. 
There is a samba drive on the Linux server which serves the Windows, so 
I could as well start a whole Linux in Virtual Box and access that drive 
to fetch the data, but the terminal server is surely the more efficient way.

So, all I would like to know is if you have an idea what could cause 
these pauses as I haven't found anything about it.

Regards

Rolf