ChristianB
02-27-2015, 07:21 AM
Hi,
for several years we've been using SetupBuilder (p.t ver. 8.1.4550) to create our setup. All setups are tested both on local machines and on virtual machines before our customers can download them.
Until recently the only virtualization environment at our office has been Hyper-V, but a few days ago we also tried our latest setup in a VMware VM. That's when we got into some really strange issues. To explain: our setup first copies some .zip files and a DBconfig.exe to a "data folder". Then the setup executes the DBconfig.exe, which is a Clarion program containing a wizard for creating a MS-SQL database and setting up the connection string. When the database is successfully created, the user can pick between several "default data environments" located in the .zip files. We use the Linder zip library (for Clarion) to unlock and unpack the .zip-files before reading from the unpacked textfiles and inserting default data into the database tables. When installing locally or to a Hyper-V VM this is no problem at all, but within a VMware VM the DBconfig.exe is unable to reach these .zipfiles. Even though we can see the files in the virtual mahine's file explorer next to the DBconfig.exe itself! Like I said, installing into a Hyper-V driven VM doesn't cause any issues at all. It's quite possible this is a VMware related problem due to some caching techniques, but we wanted to ask if this is a common issue anybody has heard of before and/or related to SetupBuilder? :confused:
for several years we've been using SetupBuilder (p.t ver. 8.1.4550) to create our setup. All setups are tested both on local machines and on virtual machines before our customers can download them.
Until recently the only virtualization environment at our office has been Hyper-V, but a few days ago we also tried our latest setup in a VMware VM. That's when we got into some really strange issues. To explain: our setup first copies some .zip files and a DBconfig.exe to a "data folder". Then the setup executes the DBconfig.exe, which is a Clarion program containing a wizard for creating a MS-SQL database and setting up the connection string. When the database is successfully created, the user can pick between several "default data environments" located in the .zip files. We use the Linder zip library (for Clarion) to unlock and unpack the .zip-files before reading from the unpacked textfiles and inserting default data into the database tables. When installing locally or to a Hyper-V VM this is no problem at all, but within a VMware VM the DBconfig.exe is unable to reach these .zipfiles. Even though we can see the files in the virtual mahine's file explorer next to the DBconfig.exe itself! Like I said, installing into a Hyper-V driven VM doesn't cause any issues at all. It's quite possible this is a VMware related problem due to some caching techniques, but we wanted to ask if this is a common issue anybody has heard of before and/or related to SetupBuilder? :confused: