I would think software level testing would result in more than 50% of the cases for most people. I run about 30 machines in my home (I have probably a hundred on CDs) on a regular basis, nearly all are virtual. The only physical limitation I have run into in my VMs so far was the lack of USB support in VPC which I solved by using VMWARE. My next major hurdle is 64 bit guests for a piece of software that decided would only be available in 64 bit, which I will again solve with VMWARE. I haven't dual booted a machine nor had a need to dual boot a machine since vmware 2 which was about 2000/2001 or so.
If you start doing hardware integration testing or production perf testing, you have no choice but to use physical hardware obviously. In every test lab for business I have been involved in the last few years, the virtualized instances have far outstripped the number of physical instances. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 1:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] WinXP and Win2003 Re: My message to joe. Maybe 50% of the time - I'd agree. However, if you want to test that snazzy new Fibre HBA or would like to see what the impact for the user is going to be with CAD with the newest High End InterGraph workstation video card - VMs aren't going to work. The hardware selection in VMs is intended to be generic. Which for testing or learning BizTalk and SQL interaction with ADAM and ADFS - it rocks because the hardware doesn't matter. Again - be sure of this - I love VMs. I just can't test Vista on it because Aero Glass is the target, and I can't quite put an LDDM driver on the generic graphics coded in, for example. Rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ASB Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 10:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] WinXP and Win2003 Did you originally use different names, or the same name for each computer? And I agree with Joe: Dual-booting is becoming obsolete. http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/?File=BootMgr.TXT -ASB FAST, CHEAP, SECURE: Pick Any TWO http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/ On 1/1/06, shereen naser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > I have windows xp sp 2 on my machine, I need to test something so I > installed windows 2003 server enterprise edition R2 on the same > machine same > hard disk, I can see the dual boot screen and choose the OS, but I can only > login to the domain if one of the OS's is disconnected from the > domain, meaning if I want to login to the windows 2003 I have to go to > the windows xp and disjoin the machine from the domain then restart > and login to the domain in windows 2003, if I want to login to winxp I > go to windows 2003 and > disjoin it from the domain then restart and join the xp to the domain > and login, locally I can login to both machines no problem. the error > is that the computer account is not found on the domain when I try to > login and both > OSes are joined to the domain. I tried to rename the machine name to > different names in each OS but same thing happens. is there a way to > do that? (login to domain using both OS's without having to disjoin?) > Thank you List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
