Virtual PC as a development platform
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Some time ago I asked about this if anyone had tried to use VPC as a development platform and I got quite a few responses ranging from "Don't do it" to "I love it". I tried it out on my dual xeon 4GB with 320GB raid 0 setup and it works like a charm. No more broken windows, just my virtual machines that get all the pounding. It runs just as fast as my normal workstation, except that the VPC images don't have a second processor, still it's a great way to work. I can really recommend this to anybody who has a heavy machine (If you know what I mean), because it saves alot of time on reinstalling, because you have the development machine ready on disk and don't need to setup visual studio, which takes a lot of time.
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Some time ago I asked about this if anyone had tried to use VPC as a development platform and I got quite a few responses ranging from "Don't do it" to "I love it". I tried it out on my dual xeon 4GB with 320GB raid 0 setup and it works like a charm. No more broken windows, just my virtual machines that get all the pounding. It runs just as fast as my normal workstation, except that the VPC images don't have a second processor, still it's a great way to work. I can really recommend this to anybody who has a heavy machine (If you know what I mean), because it saves alot of time on reinstalling, because you have the development machine ready on disk and don't need to setup visual studio, which takes a lot of time.
WM. What about weapons of mass-construction? "What? Its an Apple MacBook Pro. They are sexy!" - Paul Watson
I love having VMs simply for testing on older OSes and older browsers. (I support 2K+ in my products) My 1 GB machine runs Win 2K with no trouble at all, and even XP if I keep the VM image clean so it's not loading a bunch of stuff. Gone are the days when I had to maintain a separate system with Ghost images of various OSes! :jig:
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Some time ago I asked about this if anyone had tried to use VPC as a development platform and I got quite a few responses ranging from "Don't do it" to "I love it". I tried it out on my dual xeon 4GB with 320GB raid 0 setup and it works like a charm. No more broken windows, just my virtual machines that get all the pounding. It runs just as fast as my normal workstation, except that the VPC images don't have a second processor, still it's a great way to work. I can really recommend this to anybody who has a heavy machine (If you know what I mean), because it saves alot of time on reinstalling, because you have the development machine ready on disk and don't need to setup visual studio, which takes a lot of time.
WM. What about weapons of mass-construction? "What? Its an Apple MacBook Pro. They are sexy!" - Paul Watson
I have been using VMWare for development for years, it is one of the most useful pieces of software I own. Over the years I have built up images of just about every OS and service pack configuration, from these it takes minutes to load up an environment that perfectly suits whatever task I am working on. I can then take snapshots of a particular environment etc which allow me to easily rollback should something kill the image. Way back then before WMWare I would have to manually install and build either from direct installs or ghost images, if it went belly up you would have to start almost from scratch. Apart from having to have a relatively powerful machine to host the images I can see no disadvantage to using this system
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Some time ago I asked about this if anyone had tried to use VPC as a development platform and I got quite a few responses ranging from "Don't do it" to "I love it". I tried it out on my dual xeon 4GB with 320GB raid 0 setup and it works like a charm. No more broken windows, just my virtual machines that get all the pounding. It runs just as fast as my normal workstation, except that the VPC images don't have a second processor, still it's a great way to work. I can really recommend this to anybody who has a heavy machine (If you know what I mean), because it saves alot of time on reinstalling, because you have the development machine ready on disk and don't need to setup visual studio, which takes a lot of time.
WM. What about weapons of mass-construction? "What? Its an Apple MacBook Pro. They are sexy!" - Paul Watson
WillemM wrote:
anybody who has a heavy machine (If you know what I mean)
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I love having VMs simply for testing on older OSes and older browsers. (I support 2K+ in my products) My 1 GB machine runs Win 2K with no trouble at all, and even XP if I keep the VM image clean so it's not loading a bunch of stuff. Gone are the days when I had to maintain a separate system with Ghost images of various OSes! :jig:
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Michael Dunn wrote:
Gone are the days when I had to maintain a separate system with Ghost images of various OSes!
I hear you. I don't miss those days :-D
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Some time ago I asked about this if anyone had tried to use VPC as a development platform and I got quite a few responses ranging from "Don't do it" to "I love it". I tried it out on my dual xeon 4GB with 320GB raid 0 setup and it works like a charm. No more broken windows, just my virtual machines that get all the pounding. It runs just as fast as my normal workstation, except that the VPC images don't have a second processor, still it's a great way to work. I can really recommend this to anybody who has a heavy machine (If you know what I mean), because it saves alot of time on reinstalling, because you have the development machine ready on disk and don't need to setup visual studio, which takes a lot of time.
WM. What about weapons of mass-construction? "What? Its an Apple MacBook Pro. They are sexy!" - Paul Watson
We use it a lot for testing, but personally I've seen too many problems with shared drives (mainly explorer in the guest OS dying) to trust it for mainstream development. Syncing the source just becomes too much of a pain under those circumstances.
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Some time ago I asked about this if anyone had tried to use VPC as a development platform and I got quite a few responses ranging from "Don't do it" to "I love it". I tried it out on my dual xeon 4GB with 320GB raid 0 setup and it works like a charm. No more broken windows, just my virtual machines that get all the pounding. It runs just as fast as my normal workstation, except that the VPC images don't have a second processor, still it's a great way to work. I can really recommend this to anybody who has a heavy machine (If you know what I mean), because it saves alot of time on reinstalling, because you have the development machine ready on disk and don't need to setup visual studio, which takes a lot of time.
WM. What about weapons of mass-construction? "What? Its an Apple MacBook Pro. They are sexy!" - Paul Watson
I prefer VMWare. Their free offerings are quite good IMO.
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