Virtualisation
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One big Box (with virtual boxes) Vs a number of small boxes...
I'm interested in people’s opinions on the following:
Currently I have a number of boxes that I work/play with. My faithful Blue-and-White PowerMac (much upgraded) gave up the ghost a year or so back (I miss it so) and the Linux box is getting to be to slow. This all leads me to the 'need' to invest in more tech.
I'm mulling over the idea of getting one good sized workstation and using virtualisation for 'other' boxes, this may lead me down the path of a Mac Pro (2 x Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” processors) or high spec iMac. I want to go back to Mac but have I large investment in PC software (need to keep up with the PC side of things for my day job).
Is the current state of virtualisation suitably advanced to make this a viable option, or should I stick to having dedicated boxes?
I'm interested in people’s opinions on the following:
Currently I have a number of boxes that I work/play with. My faithful Blue-and-White PowerMac (much upgraded) gave up the ghost a year or so back (I miss it so) and the Linux box is getting to be to slow. This all leads me to the 'need' to invest in more tech.
I'm mulling over the idea of getting one good sized workstation and using virtualisation for 'other' boxes, this may lead me down the path of a Mac Pro (2 x Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” processors) or high spec iMac. I want to go back to Mac but have I large investment in PC software (need to keep up with the PC side of things for my day job).
Is the current state of virtualisation suitably advanced to make this a viable option, or should I stick to having dedicated boxes?
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Sounds like you're somewhat in the same situation as I am.
I prefer to work/develop (mostly server-side stuff) on my Debian box, but in addition I have an up-to-date PC (salvaged, P4, HW cost $0) running XP SP2 to check compatibilities with some of the target audience.
So have both plus a laptop grub-ing XP and Gentoo. Wife has an iMac (OS/X) if I need to try out stuff.
In addition to that I have an iPhone, LG nV and Toshiba SPH-i330 for some of the PDA issues I deal with, but that's another story.
I just like the hardware redundancy and it gives me a chance to try out real-world LAN issues and other such situations if and when they arise.
Just my $0.02
y.
I prefer to work/develop (mostly server-side stuff) on my Debian box, but in addition I have an up-to-date PC (salvaged, P4, HW cost $0) running XP SP2 to check compatibilities with some of the target audience.
So have both plus a laptop grub-ing XP and Gentoo. Wife has an iMac (OS/X) if I need to try out stuff.
In addition to that I have an iPhone, LG nV and Toshiba SPH-i330 for some of the PDA issues I deal with, but that's another story.
I just like the hardware redundancy and it gives me a chance to try out real-world LAN issues and other such situations if and when they arise.
Just my $0.02
y.
Personally I'd go with a single box but I'd prefer a big disk/removable/swappable disks and multi-boot capability over virtualisation, especially now Apple are Intel based, though I don't know what Apple boxes are like for removing disks. I've seen a couple of cases recently where someone spent a week chasing a software problem only to find it wasn't their software at all but the virtual environment. I suppose if you're running 'standard' software it would be OK but anything slightly unusual then it's starts getting risky.
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I'll have to read up on the capabilities of Boot Camp on a Mac. I used to used System Commander on a single box but got a bit fed up with rebooting into a different system to do a bit of work then back again...
It looks like I may be able to combine boot camp and VMware fusion.
It looks like I may be able to combine boot camp and VMware fusion.
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