Hi Jeff- I spend 100% of my development time in virtual machines which I host on my laptop. I still do quite a lot of VFP development, and thus I find the VM environment more than capable for both testing and development. I happen to be hosting on a Windows XP machine, but there's no reason I couldn't also be hosting from Linux with the same positive experience as far as the VFP development is concerned.
While it's true there's a small performance hit for running in a VM, I find that I almost never notice it. I happen to be running Vmware workstation which I find to be far better for performance than MS virtual software. Of course when it comes to hosting on Linux, you needn't worry about the slow MS performance since Linux isn't supported anyway, no surprise. Like everything else, nothing's perfect, and there are a few drawbacks to using VM's exclusively (largely related to managing the VM disk image), but I find the benefits far outweigh the few small drawbacks. I don't predict it will ever be easier to develop VFP on Linux directly as compared to running in a VM. The only disclaimer is that a VM requires a fairly decent machine, and most certainly a dual core processor, so if your experiences are on an older computer with aging specs or a single cpu, you should try evaluating VMs again on today's hardware (even a 500$ machine should be fine provided it's dual core). Good luck and post back how your success or failure goes with VFP on Linux. -Steve At 03:05 PM 7/25/2008, you wrote: >There are several messages in the archives about using Linux for >development, but no real success stories. That was a couple of years >ago. Is anyone doing VFP development on Linux? I would like to be able >to run prgs from the command window. Using a VM works fine for testing, >but I would prefer to stay in Linux while developing. > >Anyone doing this these days? If so, what programs are you using? > >TIA > >-- >Jeff > >Jeff Johnson >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >SanDC, Inc. >623-582-0323 >Fax 623-869-0675 > >Phoenix Python User Group - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
