I would like to have a VM to look at how applications appear and to develop OS-specific applications, however, I want to keep all my code on my Windows machine so if I decide to nuke a VM or anything like that, it's all still there. If it matters, I'm using VirtualBox. ...
I see here that there are a load of languages aside from Java that run on the JVM. I'm a bit confused about the whole concept of other languages running in the JVM. So: What is the advantage in having other languages for the JVM? What is required (in high level terms) to write a language/compiler for the JVM? How do you write/compile...
I've installed Ubuntu Server (8.04) into Parallels and found that the system time/clock ran fast to the extent that it would gain hours over time. ...
Anyone have any success or failure running Jira on a VM? I am setting up a new source control and defect tracking server. My server room is near full and my services group suggested a VM. I saw that a bunch of people are running SVN on VM (including NCSA). The VM would also free me from hardware problems and give me high availability...
What is the best way to configure disks in a VMWare server that will be hosting multiple machines? A single RAID 5 array hosting multiple VMs would provide good throughput but means all VMs are accessing the same disks (so one VM accessing the disk will delay another accessing the disk) Skippig RAID and having a single VM per disk me...
I understand that Parrot is a virtual machine, but I feel like I'm not completely grasping the idea behind it. As I understand, it's a virtual machine that's being made to handle multiple languages. Is this correct? What are the advantages of using a virtual machine instead of just an interpreter? What specifically is Parrot doin...
I know that I can share files using Shared Folders in Virtual PC, but this method seems to have pretty poor performance. Is there another method to share files that provides better performance? (Besides using something other than Virtual PC) Note: I guess this isn't directly programming related, but as a developer who spends all day in ...
I recently build myself a semi beef up PC (Q9450, 8GB DDR2 1066, 1TB HDD, Dual 8600GT, Vista Ultimate and Dual 22' Monitors) and I'm evaluating whether i should develop on a VPC/VMWare session on top of Vista or not? One benefit i can see is that i can run the same VM on my Vista laptop so my development environment is the same on any o...
I would have thought that it would be clear cut whether memory allocation is faster in managed code than in native code - but there seems to be some controversy. Perhaps memory management under a Virtual Machine be faster because of no context-swapping calls to the OS, but then I see that the VM would itself need to make periodic calls ...
I need to test a site with a dynamic menu in Mac Firefox, but I'm running in Windows. A simple browsershot.com test won't help; I need to actually use the site. How can I acquire a method of doing Mac emulation without physically having a Mac? Is there some kind of remote VM product out there? ...
In our legacy system, we wrote our own VM to execute our internal DSL at run time. The in-house VM was designed to run our internal DSL only. We are in the process of rewriting our legacy application. One of the idea we are considering is, to transform our internal DSL to external DSL (C# or Java) and take advantage of their VM. There ...
What is the best practice to solve a Java VM crash if the follow conditions are true: No own or third party native code. 100% pure java The same program run on many other system without any problems. PS: With VM crash I means that the VM write a dump file like hs_err_pid1234.log and terminate. ...
I have custom coded several enterprise applications for mid to large organizations to use internally (some with a minimal external footprint). I now have plans for a web project that may (hopefully) see a large userbase with more daily traffic than my previous projects have ever attained. Obviously I want my design to be scalable and m...
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 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...
I've got some software I created deployed on a Linux VM. I'd like to deploy a second copy of the software on a second virtual machine. Ideally, I'd like to just clone the VM volume, fire up a second copy, change the IP address, and that's that. It there anything else to it, or is it really just that simple. ...
I recently read a discussion regarding whether managed languages are slower (or faster) than native languages (specifically C# vs C++). One person that contributed to the discussion said that the JIT compilers of managed languages would be able to make optimizations regarding references that simply isn't possible in languages that use po...
I'm interested in implementing a Forth system, just so I can get some experience building a simple VM and runtime. When starting in Forth, one typically learns about the stack and its operators (DROP, DUP, SWAP, etc.) first, so it's natural to think of these as being among the primitive operators. But they're not. Each of them can be br...
Are there any Java VMs which can save their state to a file and then reload that state? If so, which ones? ...