Re: [nyphp-talk] Virtualbox as a dev environment

2011-09-02 Thread Jimmy Fountain
Funny, I was looking into doing this today at my workplace. I was considering VMware but the player doesn't seem to support macs and we have developers on Win,Linux and Mac. I looked into paralells but the mac performace isn't great in my experience. Also, I'd like to package the same serv

Re: [nyphp-talk] Virtualbox as a dev environment

2011-09-02 Thread Gary Mort
On 9/2/2011 1:46 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote: BTW is this virtualization new to you guys? I was running VirtualBox back in 2006... -- Aj. It's fairly new for me. I've never had a system fast enough to really run it, and never felt like I needed it. Late last year when my laptop died, I decided

Re: [nyphp-talk] Virtualbox as a dev environment

2011-09-02 Thread Gary Mort
On 9/2/2011 1:27 PM, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote: You can set up the networking to bridge to the host OS's connection, or to use a NAT subnet within the workstation. That is, your host workstation can communicate with the VM, but other machines cannot. I'm not a network guy, so sorry if my explan

Re: [nyphp-talk] Virtualbox as a dev environment

2011-09-02 Thread Chris Snyder
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Rolan Yang wrote: > Didn't do any good when we lost power for half a day after the hurricane > though. That's when it's time to use a whiteboard for development. Or an Etch-A-Sketch. ___ New York PHP Users Group Communit

Re: [nyphp-talk] Virtualbox as a dev environment

2011-09-02 Thread Rolan Yang
I've been using Centos Xen VM's on a dedicated development machine and it's been working well without any problems. When I'm done with the client's job, just shut down the instance and store away the disk image on a backup. Didn't do any good when we lost power for half a day after the hurrican

Re: [nyphp-talk] Virtualbox as a dev environment

2011-09-02 Thread David Krings
On 9/2/2011 1:23 PM, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote: I've been using VMware Server (free as in beer) to run Ubuntu VMs on my laptops for 1+ years. Works great for me. I have one VM for dev work, and another for staging, which is set up like production. Easy to create a fresh one to test restoration of

Re: [nyphp-talk] Virtualbox as a dev environment

2011-09-02 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Gary Mort wrote: > I tried setting up XAMP and MAMP with multiple PHP versions and it was a > nightmare because they load some DLL's for PHP that can only be loaded once. > > Separate directories didn't work too well either because of registry > settings. And running both s

Re: [nyphp-talk] Virtualbox as a dev environment

2011-09-02 Thread Yitzchak Schaffer
On 09/02/2011 13:23, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote: I've been using VMware Server (free as in beer) to run Ubuntu VMs on my laptops for 1+ years. Works great for me. You can set up the networking to bridge to the host OS's connection, or to use a NAT subnet within the workstation. That is, your hos

Re: [nyphp-talk] Virtualbox as a dev environment

2011-09-02 Thread Yitzchak Schaffer
On 09/02/2011 12:19, Gary Mort wrote: I've been driven a little crazy lately with trying to develop for Joomla with the following limitations: 1) Half the sites use PHP 5.2 and half of them use PHP 5.3 2) Sometimes I'm online and sometimes I'm offline I kept coming back to "if only I was using

Re: [nyphp-talk] Virtualbox as a dev environment

2011-09-02 Thread Chris Snyder
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Rolan Yang wrote: > What's your thought on using XAMPP instead of creating a bunch of virtual > machines? XAMPP isn't ideal because it doesn't give you a server environment. There are a lot of subtle (and not so subtle) things that change when you move from one en

Re: [nyphp-talk] Virtualbox as a dev environment

2011-09-02 Thread Gary Mort
On 9/2/2011 12:42 PM, Rolan Yang wrote: What's your thought on using XAMPP instead of creating a bunch of virtual machines? You could run two instances of apache (php ver 5.2 & 5.3) on different ports and have both reference the same web directory and mysql. I have found XAMPP to be slow (umm,

Re: [nyphp-talk] Virtualbox as a dev environment

2011-09-02 Thread Rolan Yang
What's your thought on using XAMPP instead of creating a bunch of virtual machines? You could run two instances of apache (php ver 5.2 & 5.3) on different ports and have both reference the same web directory and mysql. I have found XAMPP to be slow (umm, my laptop is a Dell D410 Pentium Mobile

Re: [nyphp-talk] Virtualbox as a dev environment

2011-09-02 Thread Chris Snyder
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Gary Mort wrote: > VirtualBox basically allows you to run different operating systems in a > virtual environment. I switched to a similar rig after updating to a new laptop with faster CPU and more RAM. I see no performance hit from the guest OS, and I get to wor

Re: [nyphp-talk] Virtualbox as a dev environment

2011-09-02 Thread Federico Ulfo
Interesting, what about performances? I guess is useful only for testing right? -- Federico Ulfo ยป Certified Developer Google & PHP On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Gary Mort wrote: > I've been driven a little crazy lately with try

[nyphp-talk] Virtualbox as a dev environment

2011-09-02 Thread Gary Mort
I've been driven a little crazy lately with trying to develop for Joomla with the following limitations: 1) Half the sites use PHP 5.2 and half of them use PHP 5.3 2) Sometimes I'm online and sometimes I'm offline I kept coming back to "if only I was using linux, I could set things up more ea