If going with 64bit systems, I recommend at least 8 GB RAM. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Raley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 8:05 AM To: cf-community Subject: RE: virtual machines
If its slow its fine, I need laptop to take with me to show why I say what I do since people don't get powerpoint slides or ask too many questions and now I can show first hand and get the yes/no answer. How much RAM are you working with? The vendor that had a laptop had 4gb but was running XP/VMWARE and XP in all their scenarios. Their software server piece was java so it would run under any OS basically. Low overhead. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:45 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: virtual machines I use VMWWare Fusion on my Mac and VMWare Workstation on my Windows laptop. Both work great and I have not really had any issues (except for a few connectivity issues between VM and host on Mac - but that seemed to be resolved in an update quite a while ago). My only concern in your case is that if you are going to be running multiple VM's at one time, 6GB of RAM might not be adequate enough. On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Scott Raley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Okay I need honest opinions here. I've got 5 dev laptops that I'm going to > wipe because I'm tired of spinning around all day while testing software > since some is production, some are new betas etc and they can't exist on the > same machine. Well some can but then I have to keep track of ports being > used by each piece to not cause conflicts. > > > > I just got a brand new 64 bit laptop with 6gig of memory and want to setup a > machine that can do virtual machines so if its ubuntu like everyone talks > about I can run two windows 7 sessions if I need to or a windows server and > xp session or whatever combination. > > > > I know one vendor I'm working with is using VMWare to do this and told me to > get that. > > > > What say you? > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:334820 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
