Running as Root

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…

I'm planning on working from home this afternoon and some of this weekend. In order to test my changes I need somewhere to deploy the application. Unfortunately, I haven't set up our VPN client yet (plus I hear our VPN is dog ass slow). Well, thanks to those handy-dandy VMs, I can pick up a copy of my server and take it with me. Then I can either run it on my laptop (and temporarily suffer through the somewhat acceptable performance degradation) or I can drop it on any of the machines I have at home. Oh, daddy likes.

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