Running two NT7 on the same time on a pc?

March 2nd, 2011, 03:03 AM

Hello,

Great to find that it's possible to run NT6.5 and NT7 at the same pc.

But how about running 2 NT7 at the same time on a single pc, as I gave up NT6.5 quite a long time ago? Many thanks.

March 2nd, 2011, 03:08 AM

Hi, yes, run Virtual machines on your pc.

Jura · March 2nd, 2011, 04:22 AM

MetalTrade

Hi, yes, run Virtual machines on your pc.

Agreed.

With an Virtual Machine this can be done quite easy (left NT chart in native windows 7, right screen is an instance of VirtualBox running with another NinjaTrader version. Btw, I'm using here two NinjaTrader with the same license key):

March 2nd, 2011, 04:30 AM

Jura

Agreed.

With an Virtual Machine this can be done quite easy (left NT chart in native windows 7, right screen is an instance of VirtualBox running with another NinjaTrader version. Btw, I'm using here two NinjaTrader with the same license key):

On Windows I've typically always used VMWare Workstation, but VirtualBox is great. On VMware there is "Unity", where you can just bring forward one app and overlay on your desktop like a native app -- without the entire VM desktop. I assume this is possible with VirtualBox as well.

Mike

Jura · March 2nd, 2011, 04:34 AM

Big Mike

On Windows I've typically always used VMWare Workstation, but VirtualBox is great. On VMware there is "Unity", where you can just bring forward one app and overlay on your desktop like a native app -- without the entire VM desktop. I assume this is possible with VirtualBox as well.

Mike

As far as I know, VirtualBox doesn't offer such an option - though you can share the clipboard and use "network drives" to pass files from the virtual machine to the native machine.

March 2nd, 2011, 05:01 AM

After having used VirtualBox for a long time, on Linux and Windows hosts, I've stopped and moved to VMware.
Too many issues with VirtualBox, most of its updates was breaking something... I've lost 2 VM with Vbox, and had some headaches, nothing with VMware.

March 2nd, 2011, 07:01 PM

Thanks all for your advice. Obviously it's a good workaround!

March 3rd, 2011, 07:38 PM

Quoting

On Windows I've typically always used VMWare Workstation, but VirtualBox is great. On VMware there is "Unity", where you can just bring forward one app and overlay on your desktop like a native app -- without the entire VM desktop. I assume this is possible with VirtualBox as well.

Mike

Jura

As far as I know, Virtual Box doesn't offer such an option - though you can share the clipboard and use "network drives" to pass files from the virtual machine to the native machine.

Check out the "Seamless Windows" feature of VBox, same basic function as Unity with VMWare.

Regards,
Guy

March 3rd, 2011, 07:58 PM

TradingGuy

Check out the "Seamless Windows" feature of VBox, same basic function as Unity with VMWare.

Regards,
Guy

Thx, I thought I had seen it in there somewhere.

Mike

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