Gustav Brock
Gustav at cactus.dk
Tue Aug 25 01:48:47 CDT 2009
Hi John Because I don't move that machine around. And I like to have access to all memory available and full speed graphics. /gustav >>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 25-08-2009 00:02 >>> Gustav, > But my primary development machine I wouldn't run in a VM. Why is that? I have used VMs for this for awhile now, and I think it works well. I have VMS Server on both of my Server 2003 machines and they have very fast processors and lots of memory so it makes the VM run fast and I can assign lots of memory to the VM if I need. OTOH I have VMWare player on my Vista laptop. While it is a fairly fast laptop it only has 4 gigs of RAM. By running the VM off of a USB drive I can move it around pretty much at will. I kind of like that. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Gustav Brock wrote: > Hi John > > Vista if you ask me. Or, of course, Windows 7 when you can get hold on it. > Hanging on with Win XP is too lame. > > But my primary development machine I wouldn't run in a VM. > > /gustav > >>>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 24-08-2009 23:18 >>> > I am going to do a virtual machine to do my development on. This allows me to move it around on an > external disk between host machines. > > My question is what OS would you suggest for the VM for development in .Net? My available choices > are XP, 2003 and Vista (and maybe Server 2008). > > Also how much disk space for the virtual hard disk? > > Even though I have been using Vista on my main development laptop for a couple of years, I still > hate it, so that would not be my first choice. > > Windows 2003 is a very stable environment but it is also a server OS and I have run into a lot of > applications, PerfectDisk for example, which refuse to run on a server OS OR want you to pay > hundreds of dollars for something that costs $50 for XP. > > Which leaves me with XP which is getting long in the tooth. > > Any yes, I have a copy of Server 2008 which I assume would have the same "is a server OS" issues > that 2003 brings with it. > > Any thoughts on this? > > BTW I think I am going to bring up a server machine (real hardware) to run the Server 2008 license I > have.