http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2006/01/29/the-year-of-the-vm/ My own observations, reviews, and stuff I'm working on. Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:28:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2006/01/29/the-year-of-the-vm/comment-page-1/#comment-301 Running as Root » Blog Archive » Oh, the VM Goodness Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:18:21 +0000 http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/?p=171#comment-301 [...] At work, I have a separate test machine I use to deploy the software on which I’m working. The demands the container(s) and framework make on the host machine are borderline too high to run on my laptop comfortably so the test machine is a very good solution. As I mentioned before we use a lot of virtual machines here. My test server is running Debian but the environment I’m deploying to is actually a VM running Windows via an instance of VMware Player. I run the player by ssh’ing to the test machine and then do some X11 port forwarding to my local Cygwin X server just so I can futz around with the instance of Windows if need be… [...] [...] At work, I have a separate test machine I use to deploy the software on which I'm working. The demands the container(s) and framework make on the host machine are borderline too high to run on my laptop comfortably so the test machine is a very good solution. As I mentioned before we use a lot of virtual machines here. My test server is running Debian but the environment I'm deploying to is actually a VM running Windows via an instance of VMware Player. I run the player by ssh'ing to the test machine and then do some X11 port forwarding to my local Cygwin X server just so I can futz around with the instance of Windows if need be… [...]

]]> http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2006/01/29/the-year-of-the-vm/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Robert Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:06:51 +0000 http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/?p=171#comment-20 That's great news. I'm still learning about how using VMs changes my normal development activities. I'm supposed to get my test machine next week so I should be able to use the VM to launch the VPN client to get on your network. Up to this point it has been a pain having to hop on and off the VPN to do different activities. I also haven't been able to leave the BPM running around the clock. Hopefully that will change. That's great news. I'm still learning about how using VMs changes my normal development activities. I'm supposed to get my test machine next week so I should be able to use the VM to launch the VPN client to get on your network. Up to this point it has been a pain having to hop on and off the VPN to do different activities. I also haven't been able to leave the BPM running around the clock. Hopefully that will change.

]]> http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2006/01/29/the-year-of-the-vm/comment-page-1/#comment-19 eric Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:16:56 +0000 http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/?p=171#comment-19 Yeah, we're migrating the wiki at your former job to a VM as well as using VMs for easy upgrade testing. It's nice to be able to easily roll back to the state of the (virtual) system at last boot. Yeah, we're migrating the wiki at your former job to a VM as well as using VMs for easy upgrade testing. It's nice to be able to easily roll back to the state of the (virtual) system at last boot.

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