drew.georgopulos (12/23/2013)
My doctor advised ditching the laptop for a more ergonomic environment.I code at home now for four clients, and was wondering if it makes any sense to divide the new rig into N virtual machines...maybe a small Linux instance and a windows partition or two.
Is this a worthwhile effort?
Its got 1tb disk and 32 gb ram
Thanks a lot
I would not have a development machine any other way, though I don't use partitions and such. Look into VMWare. You set up a VM on a host for whatever operating system you have and you run the complete OS like an app. The VM's can be configured so that they can see the host. But each VM is its own little world.
I have Win 7 64 as the host and on that I have a Win 7 32 bit VM, an XP VM and a DOS 6.0 VM just for the fun of it. You could have a Linux VM as well. The real beauty comes into play when you have to upgrade your host machine. You copy the VM's from one host to another and you are up and running in a matter of minutes. Regular backups ensure that if your current host gets trashed, reinstall the host, copy the VM's from your backup and you are up and running.
You do have to have the install disks for each OS that you would like to install.
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