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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>> Why wouldn't you spend less than half of that money on a new hard drive and dual boot isntead?
Because I need Linux and Windoze to run concurrently. It is also a great tool for development, and I'm not just referring to writing code. Whenever I have to develop operational solution, VMWare has come to the rescue as a great testing platform.
Some of the things I have done with VMWare:
- Solaris 9 x86 Beta
- kickstart configuration testing
- FreeBSD evaluation
I've also used VMWare to take advantage of old systems and breath new life into them. For instance, our build farms for different flavors of OSs are actually running on old HP lt6000r servers which would otherwise be fairly useless. We've crammed 16 virtual machines in a single box, saving space, power, blah, blah.
Besides, you want to crank up the uptime on your Linux box, don't you? :-)