I'm a solo developer working on a typical web project (Django + PostgresSQL) using Eclipse as my IDE and Subversion for source control. So far I've been working on a single development machine that I have setup myself. Recently, I've been asked to do some work at the customer site and there have also been a few occasions when it would ha...
How can I detect (.NET or Win32) if my application is running in a virtual machine? ...
I've messed with Virtual Machine software before and for me it works very well for multi-platform testing. My question is what virtual machine systems out there that are free are available that can do things like cloning, state saving and branching, and have low overhead in terms of modifying the host system. For right now I'm using Vir...
My Company is running several international websites for selling insurance products. Our current setup is a Webfarm with multiple Loadbalanced Webservers hosting our ASP.NET applications. The backend is a single - yet powerful - SQL Server. (all in one data center) Our network admins want to move to virtual servers running on VMWare. S...
This question might edge on being an IT question, so please bear with me while the IT version of SO is not there yet. C'mon people, 3 "close" votes a few minutes after the question is up? What's so wrong with it? This might be a little sysadmin-ish, but hey, I really could be a lot more off-topic - and even get upvoted, as long as it'...
I develop a network based, multi-component software system that's designed to run on an arbitrary number of machines. I'm assuming a typical setup of 1 to 4 machines. I want to be serious about testing the system, and I have set up a network of virtual machines on a strong PC that I can use to simulate the network interaction. However, ...
I am trying to perform a fair comparison of XenServer vs ESX and one comparison I would like to make is performance with multiple VMs. Does anyone know how to go about benchmarking VM performance in a fair way? On each server I would like to run a fixed number of XP/Vista VMs (for example 8) and have some measure of how quickly each one...
Suppose I've got some Arch Linux installation which I'd like to distribute among students with (sometimes very) basic Linux knowledge to make them able to compile C programs in an environment very similar to that in the university. (Things like Cygwin or MinGW seem to be inappropriate here.) I also choose VirtualBox as a holder for the ...
Is there a way to figure out if a win 2003 server server you are connecting to is virtualised? I tried asking but not 100% sure of the answer is correct. ...
I'm trying to make the jump to running my development tools in virtual machines and am wondering about any tips as far as setting up such an environment Some specifics: I am using VirtualBox. My host pc is WindowsXP I am looking to install Vista in the VM. I will need VS 2008 with all the standard stuff that it comes with I wi...
I was reading up on Midori and kinda started wondering if this is possible. On a managed OS, "managed code" is going to be native, and "native code" is going to be...alien? Is it possible, at least theoretically, to run the native code of today on a managed OS? ...
Hi, Installed windows xp on virtualPC for my development environment. I installed the 'additions' in my vm. For some reason my colors are now limited to vga 16 colors. What can I do to fix this? ...
Hi, How do I clone an existing virtualPC (2007) vm ? I am setting up my development environment and want to clone it, and also keep one as a backup that has all my baseline installs. ...
I think it's best if I ask this question with an example scenario. Let's say your mom-and-pop local hardware store has never had a website, and they want you, a freelance developer, to build them a website. You have all the skills to run a LAMP setup and admin a system, so the difficult question you ask yourself is where will I host i...
I'm trying to test my site in IE 6 using Microsoft's Win XP / IE 6 virtual machine image, but I'm unable to load any SSL site in either IE 6 or Firefox 2 inside of the virtual machine. Outside of the VM all sites load as expected, but inside it can't find the sites in either browser. Non-SSL sites load fine inside the VM. For example, t...
I'm running VPC 2007 and the OS is windows 3.1 I need to copy a C++ compiler from my real computer to the virtual one. How do I do this, it doesn't seem to read the .iso that I made. I don't have a floppy drive since I'm using a laptop. ...
What do you recommend for quickly creating images for testing a software product (that needs hardware access - full USB port access)? Does virtualization cover this? I need to be able to quickly re-image the system to test from scratch again, and need good options for Windows and Mac OS. ...
I've got rather poor knowledge of *nix virtualization capabilities and trying to clarify one thing. If one has root on host machine, does it always mean that he has root on all VMs of that host? If yes, then could there be a bogus setup where this is not true? I'm asking cause I heard two different answers to that question from two diff...
Hi, is the VMware Remote CLI (Command Line Interface), which is not a GUI, the only way to configure Syslog & SNMP on ESX3i? I would like to have the easiest way possible of having these configured by junior/not really IT staff. Has anyone thought of implementing an alternative GUI to the CLI? Are there any Windows friendly alternati...
My company is hosting a few separate, but related, moderately hit, web sites. Accordingly, a production database server, staging database server, production web server, staging web server, etc are needed. My question is, should we invest in physically separate servers for each of our needs, or should we put that money together and inve...