Lan Barnes wrote:
On Wed, April 30, 2008 3:38 pm, Doug LaRue wrote:
-snip of utility of VM-
Also consider CM and QA. Over the years, you may have 3 or more separate
build environments (OS, compiler ver, ancillary tools and libs) per
development cycle. You will wnat these to be immediately available, and
for years to come, for reliable rebuildability.
Bingo. That's where I'm coming from.
If all I wanted was a mail server, I'd just install FreeBSD and Postfix,
go home, and forget about the box for the next 4 years.
The problem I have is that I have too much software development now that
*DEMANDS* FooLinux 7.9 with Autoblarg 9.7.14 and ...
Apparently the monocultures lesson didn't take ...
The easiest way around this is simply to be able to open up a VM and
install what it needs and compile it. Then you can either strip out the
dependency or grab what you need and destroy the VM.
VMWare is quite good for this--or was until the Windows-only excursion.
Xen, not so much.
-a
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