Is there a program out there or some other thing that will run some kind of virtualization for me or something, to test the hardware minimums for a program I write? Something I can do locally without install testing on, say, a 33 mhz 64kb ram IBM or something
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VMWare is the standard, but Microsoft's Hyper-V may also do the trick (although I'm not sure how lousy a piece of hardware it can emulate).
The other nice thing is you can create a snapshot of a virgin machine right after an OS install and then roll back after testing your installation.
Frank Schmitt
2010-03-12 02:15:12
VMware and Hyper-V still use the underlying hardware on your machine (for example, you can't run a 64-bit virtual machine on 32-bit hardware). I think what Matt is after is more of a static analysis type of tool that will work regradless of the hardware the tool is run on; I don't know of anything like that.
gareth_bowles
2010-03-12 18:11:48