Re: VMware

From: Thomas W. Clay (tclay_at_int-alt.com)
Date: 07/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 09:55:35 -0600

YES!!!!

Another STRONG endorsement of VMWare!!!

Tom

"Thomas Mueller" <news@s2h.cx> wrote in message
news:35dns1-jo1.ln1@work.home.lan...
> Hi,
>
> Davids wrote:
>
> > we're getting
> > ready to release some software, and we need to do something to ensure
that
> > if we ever need to work on this release again, then we can re-load the
> > entire environment as it is right now.
>
> We have successfully used VMware for this. Actually we also do all our
> development in virtual machines from the start so there is no problem of
> creating a development environment in a virtual machine at release time
> since it already exists and only needs to be backuped. Unfortunately many
> of our images have become too large to fit on a cdrom so now we burn them
> to a dvd as part of our release process.
>
> An added benefit is that you don't "pollute" your development environment
> with all that stuff that usually needs to be installed on a work PC like
> email client, web browser, office applications etc.. (In my case this goes
> into yet another virtual machine so I can just move it to a new PC without
> installing anything but VMware on that box.)
>
> The only drawback is that you need quite a powerfull box to host all these
> virtual machines and still get decent performance. 1 gig of memory is a
> must, if you use more than 2 virtual machines.
>
> regards
> twm
>
>

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