I am planning to move my vmWare's Virtual Machines from a Windows host to a Linux host (Ubuntu). It is possible to run vmWare Server in a Linux host that does not have the graphical environment (does not have X)? I just wonder how the graphical setup of Windows/Linux guest work in this case. Thanks in advance for your time. Victor Mar...
What are the key use cases for the use of virtualization -- that is, running one or more "virtual PCs" using software such as VMWare and Microsoft Virtual PC -- for software development? Also -- are there other instances/uses of virtualization that aren't covered by my definition above (use of a tool like MS Virtual PC or VMWare), and t...
We develop websites using SQL Server and ASP.NET. Development: web on developer PC, database on DEV server Testing: both on TEST server Live: both on LIVE server At the moment, DEV and TEST servers are separate physical servers. I'm considering making them virtual servers on the same physical servers. It is important that is easy...
For my side job as programmer, I need Windows. It will be installed in VMWare Fusion. I will be writnig mostly C-code for Matlab-Mex-files, some DSP-development, some easy command-line tools in C and C++ for a tutorial and hopefully some easy GUIs using Visual Studio. I will be using VisualDSP++, Bloodshed Dev-Cpp, the Matlab mex-compile...
/dev/random and /dev/urandom use environmental noise to generate randomness. With a virtualised server there can be multiple instances of an Operating System on one hardware configuration. These operating systems will all be sourcing their randomness from the same environmental noise. Does this mean as a group the random number genera...
Hey, I know this question isn't "directly" programming related, but since I want to be able to be well-prepared on windows-programming when Windows 7 is released, I want to try it out now. But since I don't have two computers, I can't risk to install it as dual-boot in case it screws something up, my experience with dual-booting XP and ...
Recently my team has spent too many hours setting up machines with previous product releases or database servers with specific patches. In some cases, we have taken a developers machine down for up three days as a result. Clearly, this would be an ideal case for using a virtual machine. I am trying to champion the practice of making a vi...
I have an Ubuntu Server (with all of LAMP and Subversion installed). I use Eclipse with Subclipse, PDT and a few other great addins and use those exclusively to develop applications. The problem I'm having is that I'm developing on a Windows Vista machine and transferring everything to the remote Linux server. However, developing fo...
Is virtual PC practical on a home personal development computer. I do some custom .net programming at home and I was wondering if in terms of performance and overall use, Virtual PC is useful. Do the applications inside Virtual PC session run slower. It will help me with my personal dev machine. Would you recommend any other products? ...
Like any other hard disk, virtual hard discs (*.vhd) will suffer from fragmentation. So to keep good performance i guess i have to defrag first the virtual hard disc from within the virtual machine and also the (physical) hard disc the .vhd is stored on. First, are these assumption correct? And second, is there a way to defrag both (v...
I've got some legacy software that I'd like to involve in an automated unit test (for testing network protocol compatibility) and because this software is old and runs in an outdated environment I'd like to encapsulate it in a virtual machine. What is the best way to control a virtual machine from a Visual Studio unit test? Once I have t...
The title pretty much says it all, but for those of you who are familiar with both the latest VMWare Fusion and the "linked clone" feature found in VMWare workstation, can you confirm whether this feature is currently present or absent in Fusion? This could be considered an update of this previous question: http://stackoverflow.com/ques...
Virtualizing the mobile is way different from virtualizing the server or the desktop, where in the the hardware components are almost standardized [like the keyboard, mouse , usb, LAN etc] so the hardware could be easily abstracted for any of the OS. While on a mobile there is a multitude of hardware [like the iphone touch screen, stylu...
As we grow more and more dependent on virtual machines to run our autobuilds, web servers and backups we are considering consolidating virtual machines on a single physical machine. We are a Windows shop and would prefer to stay that way (at least in terms of our server architecture). If I wanted to host two virtual machines - one of w...
I'm getting pretty tired of my development box dying and then I end up having to reinstall a laundry list of tools that I use in development. This time I think I'm going to set the development environment up on a Virtual Box VM and save it to an external HDD so that way I can bring the development environment back up quickly after I f...
Following on from my earlier question, I have today ordered a 300GB VelociRaptor and 8GB of RAM for my home development rig (ASUS P5N-E with an E6600 chip). I want it to be fast in Visual Studio and flexible as well. I looking at either installing ESXi and then developing in Vista64 running on top of that, or I can install Vista64 wi...
I'm looking for a VM management solution that will allow me to easily maintain VMs in a single repository accessible on the corporate intranet. I'm currently looking into VMware's vCenter, HP's Manager, Microsoft's VM Manager. vCenter seems to require an ESX server, which I'm not very happy about. I haven't looked into others yet. Bu...
What's the best way to protect system integrity while running possibly malicious third party executables? I would like to allow a program to be able to store some information for its own use during execution, but disallow access to the network and to devices, and of course to other users' data and the overall system. A few constraints:...
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I bought a new Vista PC recently but was having lots of problems getting everything to work on it, so I continued doing most of my work (development and other) on a slow XP machine that I've had for years. Until now, that is - I used VMware Convertor to take an image of my old XP machine, and now I'm running it on my Vista machine, and ...