Honestly?  I'm running on a 400 MHZ celeron processor. 120GB HD, with an 8GB 
storage drive (its fat32).  I have 1GB ram.  My 12 years as a Computer Tech 
has taught me that for the most part ram is usually more important that 
processor cycles, although they're nice too.

I have the following setup.  Redhat 7.3 as my "host" operating system.  I do 
most of my day to day stuff there.  I have the following VMware "guest" 
systems setup.

1 win2k server.  This is running sql server 2k. (it has a 4gb virutal drive 
and it gets 256mb ram allocated)
1 win2k server. This is running apache and cf5 (it also has a 4gb virtual 
drive and 256mb ram allocated)
1 win2k pro. This is my development "box" its got a 12gb virtual drive and 
128mb ram, its the one I develop everything on, and deploy to the others.
1 win98se partition, 4gb virtual hd and 64mb ram, just for testing with older 
browsers.
1 win95 virtual machine, simular to the win98 for the same reasons.

I use sendmail that comes with redhat for an email server, and bind to handle 
dns, its also doubling as a caching name server which will walk its way to 
any server I'm looking for, I don't use the one that comes with my isp.

While I would certainly like a faster processor (and if I could maybe another 
gb of ram, but everything runs smoothly, and it mimicks a real life network 
from a single box.  If I connected to sombody else lan, and had each virtual 
machine running, everybody would see 4 seperate computers come up when I 
logged on.

I had recently upgraded to RH 8, and while its certainly prettier, I 
frequently ran into kernel panic  (everything locks up, etc, etc) when 
running my virtual machines, so had to roll the whole thing back.

One other thing I use is gnu rcs for version control, it runs in linux, I 
interface with it on my dev VM using CS-RCS, which plugs into studio nicely.  
CVS could be used as well. 

I can run all five virtual machines without any problems.  The only real issue 
I've had was with my buslink usb drive that I used to take things back and 
fourth to work with, I couldn't get it to passthrough to the windows VMs 
without it freaking the whole system out, I did eventually find someone who'd 
made linux drivers for it and all is good now.  I wouldn't change a thing.

Fred


On Friday 06 December 2002 04:17 pm, you wrote:
> Just curious Fred how much ram is oodles and oodles of ram?  What speed
> processors?  This is definitely a interesting method of doing this.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred T. Sanders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 1:20 PM
> To: CF-Server
> Subject: Re: Multiple instances of CF Server
>
>
> WEll, I'm of limitted means, so what I've done on my development box is
> this.
>
> Linux 7.3 (tried 8, don't do it, resist the urge, I learned the hard way
> here)
> I have oodles and oodles of ram and HD space.
> VMware
>
> Make several guest OS's win2k server, or whatever.  each one runs what it
> needs to.  I've got one running apache and MX, another running the same
> except version 5 of cf.  Do it however you need, and a third running sql2k.
>
> As far as each virtual machine is concerned, they're all running as
> seperate
>
> computers and can access each other over IP. My one box thinks its 3.
> Without the cpu power and the oodles of ram, it would probably run like dog
> meat, but for now it works well enough.  Occational kernel panic does
> arrise
>
> though.
>
> Fred
>
> On Thursday 05 December 2002 04:05 pm, you wrote:
> > What is the best solution for running Development and Staging
> > environments on the same server?
> >
> > I am running NT 4.0sp6; IIS; CF Server 5.0.  Looking to create a staging
> > and development area on the same server.  Is it possible to run two
> > separate instances of CF Server on the same box?  If so, how stable is
>
> this
>
> > solution. If not, any other ideas would be helpful.  Note: I'm limited to
> > two servers. One, is a dedicated Production server and the other is
> > currently the development server.
> >
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> >
> > Stephen Ayala
> > IT Programmer/Analyst
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > www.axcelis.com
>
> 
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