yeah, but playing games on windows vm is usually a no go. that said, it's a hella lot easier to take a snapshot and restore than restore a ghost image.
On Apr 23, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Scott Stewart wrote: > > <shrug> > I'm lazy I'd rather use a VM, then reformat and reimage a drive > everytime I wanted to switch operating systems > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Eric Roberts > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> For all intents and purposes for what he is saying to use if for, there is >> no difference. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Scott Stewart [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 9:35 AM >> To: cf-community >> Subject: Re: transitioning to linux for development >> >> >> Ghost reimages the machine, and requires wiping the machine's drive >> and starting over. >> VMs are virtual machines, and you can run multiple VM's at the same >> time, provided that you have the harware resources, and no drive >> wipes. >> >> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Eric Roberts >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> You can do the same thing with something like Norton Ghost... >>> >>> Eric >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 9:06 AM >>> To: cf-community >>> Subject: Re: transitioning to linux for development >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Matthew P. Smith <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> So I've pretty much had it with windows. I was all excited with 7, and >> it >>>> worked great for a couple of months, but now my systems has slowed way >>> down >>>> and I can't figure out what is going on. At this point it looks like I >>> will >>>> have to reinstall, and frankly, I don't really have the time for it. >>> >>> Welcome to the club. I feel a little dirty saying this (since Apple >>> gave Adobe a Steaming Hot Carl a couple of weeks ago) but Apple just >>> updated it's MacBook Pro product line and I received mine Wednesday. >>> Oh, I will still run Windows, but only in a tidy little VM on my MBP. >>> >>> Which brings me to my next topic - you may look into running VMs of >>> Linux / Windows / whatever rather than installing as a dual boot. >>> With a VM you can save the VM image and restore it later if you'd >>> like, which is a huge shortcut over reinstalling everything from >>> scratch each time you feel like Windows is being Windows. >>> >>> -Cameron >>> >>> . >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:316570 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
