Another day, another adventure. Today i am trying to keep a restaurant POS system alive on new hardware. The system is Aloha POS and it is currently running in a Windows 98 second edition box from the stone ages.
1. Virtual Box – Forget about it, very bad support for Video. Two suggested options, a beta project driver and an old video utilitiy that has no support either. BOOHOO.
2. Paralells Virtual Desktop 4.0 – Cost $79 per station – No good, ARGH!! If your machine doesn’t have a processor that supports virtualization, your done.
3. Microsoft Virtual PC – Trying it now, everything seems to work great, but the touch screen support is not working correctly yet, nor do i think it will. Looks like a delay problem between the screen and the virtual machine. Best and cleanest install so far.
4. VMWare Workstation – Cost $199 – Interesting bug, the PCI Standard Bridge seems to be caught in a loop, but go with it, 32 times later it will install and move along on the installation. Still working on this one.