Re: [Zope] running Zope/Plone on a Windows Virtual Machine?

2007-11-07 Thread michael nt milne
yes I realise about the single point of failure. Ideally of course we'd have separate physical servers for this. It's an intranet so security is less of an issue. There just seem to be advantages from running virtual machines. I'm not an expert but aren't they easier to manage, rollback and

Re: [Zope] running Zope/Plone on a Windows Virtual Machine?

2007-11-07 Thread knitti
On 11/7/07, michael nt milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried this or had any experience with this? We're using Enfold Server and for staging and development purposes instead of using separate machines we're thinking of setting up a 'virtual machines' on the same server. There appear

Re: [Zope] running Zope/Plone on a Windows Virtual Machine?

2007-11-07 Thread knitti
On 11/7/07, michael nt milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes I realise about the single point of failure. Ideally of course we'd have separate physical servers for this. It's an intranet so security is less of an issue. There just seem to be advantages from running virtual machines. I'm not an

Re: [Zope] running Zope/Plone on a Windows Virtual Machine?

2007-11-07 Thread michael nt milne
ok, so you could have two virtual machines say development and also staging which sat alongside a live production 'non virtual' instance of Zope. This would all sit on the one physical machine. The dev and staging instances would be switched off and on as required. With enough RAM and CPU would

Re: [Zope] running Zope/Plone on a Windows Virtual Machine?

2007-11-07 Thread knitti
On 11/7/07, michael nt milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, so you could have two virtual machines say development and also staging which sat alongside a live production 'non virtual' instance of Zope. This would all sit on the one physical machine. The dev and staging instances would be