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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VMWare is a great product. I've used it for years for development. I can have one machine and have multiple virtual machines running. If I need to test my app on multiple platforms or configurations it's perfect. I can have one with NT 4.0, IIS 4, SQL 7, one with W2k, IIS 5, SQL 7, one with W2k IIS 5 SQL 2000, etc. I can test a complex installation procedure and if it fails, reboot the virtual machine discarding all changes made during the session and bring it back up in the previous state and test again. At the last place I worked, we had a quad xeon machine that ran W2k plus 3 virtual machines concurrently. Each virtual machine was a replica of a client's server. This way we could test upgrades and troubleshoot errors before deploying.
One thing from the article:
"In previous versions, networking was daunting to say the least."
I've used VMWare extensively since 2.0 including all versions on windows and linux, even when I was new to the program I never had a problem with networking. I never even thought of it as an issue it so easy.
Also, 4.0 uses GTK not motif in linux. I think the reviewer must have had some other issues (hardware or software?) contributing to his problems.