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[Yitzchak Schaffer]

On 09/02/2011 12:19, Gary Mort wrote:
> I've been driven a little crazy lately with trying to develop for Joomla
> with the following limitations:
>
> 1) Half the sites use PHP 5.2 and half of them use PHP 5.3
> 2) Sometimes I'm online and sometimes I'm offline
>
>
> I kept coming back to "if only I was using linux, I could set things up
> more easily".... Then it struck me that my desktop is a beefy system
> memorywise[this solution is gonna take a lot of memory] - so I gave
> VirtualBox a try.
> http://www.virtualbox.org/
>

I've been using VMware Server (free as in beer) to run Ubuntu VMs on my 
laptops for 1+ years. Works great for me.

I have one VM for dev work, and another for staging, which is set up 
like production. Easy to create a fresh one to test restoration of backups.

My previous laptop with 3GB of RAM could barely run dev (1GB) and 
staging (512MB) together, plus some essential apps like Thunderbird, 
browser, IDE. Which is pretty good, I think. I have a new Sandy Bridge 
laptop (Latitude, i5-2520M) with 4GB, and all is good now.

The admin interface is a little slow, but the VM itself is quite fast IMO.

Comparison:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/virtualization-smackdown-sun-xvm-virtualbox-16-vs-vmware-server-20-beta-2/8880

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Yitzchak Schaffer
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