Will this Vida - Laptop set up work?

mikeamondo · Post by **mikeamondo** » 24 Sep 2014, 07:29

I have a Dell Mini10 Laptop running Windows XP Home, service pack 3 and IE 8. On the way to me is a VIDA 2013A disk, and my son has the DICE scanner with him in New Hampshire. We're heading up for a visit and want to look at his car. I'll be receiving the disk today and will attempt an install tonight. I will only have a few hours with the car and hope I can get some answers while we are there .... don't want to spend it all fighting with installation issue... hoping to install before we go up.

The seller of the VIDA DICE from ebay suggested I make sure I had C++ installed, dtntframework 3.5 or older, and port 80 open... all of which I've checked and am good.

Should it install ok on the 32bit Home edition of XP?
What other tips or advice can you offer to help the install go smoothly?

Thanks!

mikeamondo · Post by **mikeamondo** » 24 Sep 2014, 08:25

Just got a message back from the seller who says VIDA will NOT install on XP Home edition due to it being unable to run any kind of server. Is this accurate? Anyone running VIDA on XP Home?

Post by **coflynn** » 24 Sep 2014, 12:14

I think XP Home is indeed no-go, but there might be some trick/hack for the installer. To save yourself some hassle consider just downloading the VMWare image posted elsewhere. You can run VMWare player on XP Home (or most any OS), and then run the pre-setup VMWare image on that.

Post by **matthew1** » 24 Sep 2014, 12:20

Generally speaking, a virtual machine is a perfect environment for things like VIDA. You can clone it, kill it, etc.

I got a terrible virus in an XP virtual machine instance, and after a few minutes of trying to fix it, I decided to simply nuke the whole VM. I had a clone to revert back to.

mikeamondo · Post by **mikeamondo** » 24 Sep 2014, 13:10

I'm considering a couple options... the best so far being to just buy a copy of XP Pro and install on the Mini 10... but can you tell me more about the VMware Player of which you speak? All of that was unfamiliar to me, but I do have some basic computer skills.... basic to moderate, I'd say.

How exactly does the VMware solution work? I install the player first, and then download the Image that someone else has posted here? And I don't need to install VIDA from the 2013A disk or the VMware allows me to install it? Can you give a newbie and overview of the process?

Post by **matthew1** » 24 Sep 2014, 13:48

VIDA DICE, which one to buy?
VIDA and DICE issues
VADIS, VIDA, and Windows 8
Installing VIDA 2011D onto Windows 7 HowTo

I don't know which one of those specifically will help you. But there is help in those posts.

Post by **precopster** » 24 Sep 2014, 14:02

Search MVS for VM Ware Image. The post by a guy called "bobthebuilding 1000000" should come up. If the image files are ever lost due to his Mega account closure I've copied them to my own Mega account in case. The link to his thread is here: https://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/forums ... hp?t=55027

There is always google if you can't do something on a PC. For the Win Home problem search "Win XP Home to Win XP Pro registry edit" or "install Vida to Win XP Home"

Post by **coflynn** » 24 Sep 2014, 16:24

.. but can you tell me more about the VMware Player of which you speak

Very briefly - a VM (Virtual Machine) is a 'virtual' computer, on which you can install any OS you want. The 'host' computer runs this piece of software. The advantage is that you can install for example Windows 7 on a Mac computer this way, as Windows just 'sees' a virgin computer.

Anyway the 'VMWare Image' means somebody has already installed Windows XP Pro + VIDA on this 'Virtual' computer. It's as if someone could give you a copy of a hard drive with everything setup on it you need - just put it in your computer and go.

In this case you download the VMWare image, and run this on-top of your computer. You don't have to install VIDA or anything else (which can be a major hassle). The only thing you might need to install is drivers for the DiCE unit on your 'host' computer (i.e. your laptop), although I'm not sure if that is even needed.

This is also idea for VIDA as it runs a bunch of servers in the background, so you don't really want to install it on your main computer, as you've got to stop those servers from running or it eats resources all the time. But with the VMWare you can effectively dedicate a complete computer to VIDA, and just turn it on when you need it!

mikeamondo · Post by **mikeamondo** » 24 Sep 2014, 18:18

coflynn... thank you so much! That's exactly the description I was looking for. As far as I can see VMPlayer should work fine on Windows 8.... do you agree?

Post by **coflynn** » 24 Sep 2014, 18:22

Yeah, should work no problem. I'm not 100% sure about drivers for the DiCE but generally everything just gets passed into the virtual machine. I think someone posted a link for the VMWare Player 6 installer file in one of the threads, otherwise you can download it from the VMWare website (it's free), see https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#d ... player/6_0.

It might ask you to buy a license for the 'plus' version but you don't need it, the free one will work.