To be completely honest, unless you are doing funky things with sharepoint, I find maintaining multiple VMs just unwieldy. I have everything backed up in the cloud (dropbox, bitbucket, etc.)
I just keep using my machine until something messes everything up (usually when a new version of the WP7 SDK comes out). - I format the machine - run http://ninite.com/ to auto install most apps with 1 click - install Visual Studio - Run the web platform installer to layer on top any missing frameworks and SQL Express 2008 R2 - Resync my documents / source code Gets you 90% of the way there again in under 2 hours and you get a nice clean environment again and again. And that is about the same amount of time that is wasted tinkering with multiple VMs. The only time I deviate from this is when I use the "Boot from VHD" option in Windows 7, for when I'm doing HIGHLY experimental stuff. Such as playing with Windows 8. -David Burela On 23 February 2012 17:16, Peter Griffith <[email protected]> wrote: > What’s works best for software development?**** > > ** ** > > Windows 2008 R2 and Hyper-v for VMs**** > > ** ** > > Windows 2008 R2 and VPC for VMs**** > > ** ** > > Windows 7 and Hyper-v for VMs**** > > ** ** > > Windows 7 and VPC for VMs**** > > ** ** > > Multi-boot?**** > > ** ** > > PG**** > > ** ** > > Peter Griffith CP**** > > http://adnugcom.wordpress.com**** > > PH: 0408 832 891 **** > > ** ** >
