Linked by Roberto Dohnert on Mon 23rd Jun 2003 02:31 UTC
If you have a mixed network like I do sometimes you have to compromise. At my job we run Windows, Linux and a sole Mac (Graphics dept.) and lets face it, when you do consulting work and if you design and develop custom applications you have to be able to develop for your clients platform and as much as I hate it, it's a Windows world. Before I used to have 2 workstations, one Windows and one Linux, or I had to dual boot. In the past, virtual machines have been lacking. Either they were too slow or lacking a certain pizazz to get the job done. Enter VMWare Workstation 4.
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As a developer, a virtual machine is a great tool for testing. You can have a virgin installation of an operating system (or many OSes) to see how your program will run outside of your development environment which is probably heavily tweaked and loaded with an abundance of software. Anyone developing a simple 3D-related programs might want to take advantage of a virtual machine so they could do what other developers do with the VMs. The reason is definitely less compelling. No 3D game programmer worth their salt would fail to test their game on real-world platforms with real 3D accelerators (as drivers vary so much from manufacturer to manufacturer). But simple 3D apps that don't push the envelope of Direct3D or OpenGL would make great candidates to test on a VM given it was fast enough to accelerate 3D.