Charlotte Foust
charlotte.foust at gmail.com
Sat Sep 11 17:20:22 CDT 2010
We were doing some of that at my former employer primarily to test our .Net apps in multiple OS environments. That gave us the ability to test against XP, Vista, and Win 7 on a single machine, Developers used VMs to track down issues clients were having with a particular environment. It worked quite well on both laptops and desktop machines. The behavior with adequate memory was completely satisfactory. Charlotte Foust On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:57 PM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: > Is anyone doing development primarily in a virtual machine? Anyone using VMs to test against > specific environments - Windows XP, Office 2000 etc? > > I have a dual core Dell laptop that is beginning to feel long in the tooth, though it is less than 3 > years old. I think it is just the old "too much crap" syndrome, but I am wondering if I could move > into a VM, perhaps using XP as the OS and even though it would only use one of the cores, it might > just be more responsive. Or maybe not. > > I do know that a new laptop is not in the cards any time soon. > > -- > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >