new machine is not a laptop and is not a mac. It will probably be a fairly heavily loaded i7 machine with several(*) TB of disk space. I want to run it as a server / workstation where I can run multiple VMs to support things like DB [Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, & PostgreSQL], Web [apache & IIS], App[Tomcat, Websphere, Weblogic], and other apps. The machine will have something like 12 Gb RAM and a hefty, but not insane, video subsystem. While I don't plan on using it as a workstation often, I will on occasion.
Andy * several = 8+ TB of physical disk space. On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Chris McQuistion <[email protected]>wrote: > Why don't you just keep doing that? Is the new laptop not a Mac? > > Chris > > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Andrew Farnsworth <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thanks everyone, >> Yes, what I am looking at doing is buying a new computer with OS >> installed and then, before ever booting it, put in a blank HD and install >> linux. Then use VM software of some kind to boot off the original HD with >> that other OS. What would be ideal would be to do what I did on my Macbook >> for over a year, dual boot machine where I could boot MacOSX or WindowsXP >> and if I booted MacOSX I could then run WindowsXP in a VM off the other boot >> partition. It worked very well. >> >> Andy >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
