Currently I know several methods of connecting to a GUI remotely, or running GUI applications remotely: Microsoft Terminal Services (only works for remote windows; installation); VNC (it's slow); XDMCP (requires a remote X server running, has no session persistance); Local X as remote DISPLAY for applications (best solution, but - no s...
I have basically succumbed to the fact that if you are a hardcore computer user, you will have to reimage your computer every few months because something bad happened. Because of this, I bought imaging software and then really got into imaging. I am now ready to move my development environment completely into a virtual machine so that I...
Heres the problem. I use around three different machines for development. My partner is using two. We have to go through the same freaking set up procedure on all five machines to get to work. Working with a php project here, so: Install and configure, PDT, a php debugger, and some version of XAMPP. Then possible install an svn client, ...
How credible are the benchmarks carried out within a virtual machine, as opposed to real hardware? Let's dissect a specific situation. Assume we want to benchmark the performance impact of a recent code change. Assume for simplicity that the workload is fully CPU bound (though IO bound and mixed workloads are also of interest). Assume t...
Recently the buzz of virtualization has reached my workplace where developers trying out virtual machines on their computers. Earlier I've been hearing from several different developers about setting up virtual machine in their desktop computers for sake of keeping their development environments clean. There are plenty of Virtual Machin...
It's one of those things I see a lot but never really think of. Do you think for the purpose of web application development (specifically ASP.NET WebForms/MVC). Do you think it's advantageous to do such a thing and if so, what kind of advantages come out of it? By virtualization I mean using products like Hyper-V to separate the serve...
When testing our software on several different systems (98-XP-Vista-Seven-Linux-etc), I think that the best choice is to use virtualized systems. What's your choice: VMware, Virtual Box or MS Virtual PC/Server? and why? ...
Does anybody know of a Windows tool to report fake dates/times to a process? Apparently there are Linux programs that can be used to test how the software will react in the future / in a different timezone or to trigger scheduled tasks without actually modifying the system clock. Are there such programs for Windows? ...
What is the best way to have a virtual operating system have a static IP address in VMWware. I would like to keep the IP address static since it is a virtual server. ...
I am developing software that is designed to run on a LAN. When multiple instances of the software are run on the network, they interfere with each other. I want multiple team members to be able to test the program simultaneously. How would I do so (without altering the program). My first thought would be to create a bunch of virtu...
I want to test my software on different Windows Operating Systems. I plan to do it using Virtual Machine software, either VMWare or Microsoft Virtual PC. I would like to be able to test Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 98 in both 32 and 64 bit flavors, and possibly at differing service pack levels. Where can I get the I...
Hi! I manage a database (Oracle 8i) and web server (IIS) for about 50 simultaneous users on average and a theoretical limit of 100 simultaneous users. A mid level system. We just got a dual-socket Quad-core XEON - 16GB RAM - SAS-RAID-10 beast and I am exploring the possibilities of taking these two separate servers and merging them in...
I have some images of old linux distributes in flat file format, they can be used by bochs virtual machines, but I need to run them with Sun Virtual Box. Virtual Box cannot use images in this format, so I need to convert these images from flat file to .vmdk file format. Is there any way to do this? ...
I am pricing a new software development machine and looking at the dell precision series. When I get to this screen: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/reftopic.aspx/pub/products/precn_kat?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz&~section=T7400 The first choice is: Buy a Precision WorkStation T7400 32bit Now! and the second choice is: B...
Hi, I was just wondering if I already have an image that exists, can I create an image based on the existing one, except I want to make changes to the exisiting one (mainly configurations). Thanks. ...
I have never used virtualization, and am trying to get up to speed. My new desktop is coming today and I specifically bought it to try and run all my needs on a single machine (i.e. a vista desktop, a xp desktop, vs 2005, vs20008, windows servers, sharepoint, sql server 2000/2005/2008 etc). In the past I always bought and setup separate ...
Can I really do this? As I am reading up on virtualization, I am getting more excited. The latest thing I am realizing, that it may actually be possible to take my existing XP Pro development workstation(VS 2005/vs2008/sql server etc) and simply convert the entire installation to a virtual image and load onto my new box? Sounds to good ...
Is there a way to install ubuntu 7.04-8.04 in VPC 2007? I can't do it because it just goes black. :-( ...
Hi We are developing an extension (in C# .NET env.) for a GIS application, which will has predefined types for modeling the real world objects, start from GenericObject, and goes to more specific types like Pipe and Road with their detailed properties and methods like BottomOfPipe, Diameter and so on. Surely, there will be an Object M...
In creating virtual web servers (VirtualBox for me), does web content usually go "inside" the virtual machine or is there usually a file server running on bare metal serving files (content) to all the virtual machines? Is there a typical scenario for storing content for virtual servers? ...