Cosmin Prund wrote: > I'll second the "Virtual Machine" part. I've been doing all of my > development on VmWare Workstation for the last few years, and it's > *REALLY* good.
I played with the same idea as well, did some serious testing on new hardware bought for that purpose exclusively, however I just decided to not virtualize my main development environment since running in a VM is a little bit slow. If you run D7 in a VM that's fast enought, however with Rad-Studio 2006 I don't want to lose any performance. Anyway get plenty of RAM, fast HDDs to store the VMWare images (they should be on different physical drives anyway), run the VMs with the Player, it provides much faster GUIs than VMWare Server. Unfortunately you cannot install both Player and Server on the same machine. I also tried Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 64 bits as the host OS in order to save one more M$ license and used the ntfs3-org filesystem driver to be able to access images created on a windows box, that driver worked reliable however was a bit slow since it is still compiled with debug code. -- Arno Garrels _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> Delphi@elists.org http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi
