On Dec 12, 2006, at 9:32 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:26:05 -0800, Yi Qiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 12/12/06, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> IMHO, it is also important to test specific flavors of linux >>> (eg, debian, redhat, freeBSD) and windows types (windows XP, >>> vista). Laptops could probably be used for this. >>> >> Wouldn't something like VMWare Server on a reasonably powerful >> machine >> do exactly that? There are also other solutions such as OpenVZ and >> Xen. I saw a demo of Virtuozzo by one of the employees and it looked >> very cool. I think we should leverage the power and in this >> particular case, space efficiency of virtualization as much as >> possible :) I think that the OSX is the only exception, but I see a >> Mac Pro is already on the list. > > I agree completely with Yi. The point of purchasing machines is to > test > different hardware platforms. For different OS installs, we just need > to use some virtualization software. That said, I tried pretty > hard to > setup VMWare server once and failed miserably. If anybody > (especially > a student at UW) were interested in setting up some sort of > virtualization > system, it would be appreciated. > > William
I don't even know that you'd need virtualization--just have dual/ triple/n-boot machines. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
