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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i have used vmware in seval projects.
the great thing about it is, that with vmware you are able to create serval images of a opearting system or a specific setup.
and whenever i need to test something in win95/98/98se/me/nt4/w2k/xp or any other operating system, then i can just copy that image from the net down to my system and start that virtual machine and start testing.
dual-booting could be okay if you need permanent another os, but just for testing it would be a overkill. it would be a heck of work to maintain all this diffrend setups if you would need to dual-boot.
and another great thing is, that you can setup a virtual machine and then set it to non-persisten. then you test/install/whatever you need and then just power off the virtual machine and you are back to the initial state or if you want then you can apply the changes and then continue from there. with dual-boot this would be another problem...
the price for vmware may be high, but compared with the time i save by using all the diffrend images and sharing them with outher consultants/developers in my office, the initial price pays back very quickly (and i am not talking about months you have to use vmware to pay back. as a consultant, the payback is gainied eaven if i would only save serval hours. and with vmware compared to dual-booting and all the problems with dual-booting and setting up that dual-boot environment... vmware is a big big thing).
cheers
SteveB