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Geek Culture / Anyone here use Virtual PC(s) in their development workflow?

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Burning Feet Man
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Posted: 30th Mar 2010 12:35
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Hey all,

I've just started using Windows 7 at work and decided to create & use multiple Virtual PC's for all of the programs that I use, support and develop with.

In making the jump from Windows XP to Windows 7, it's amazing to see how Windows 7 integrates with Virtual XP machines. For example, any applications that are installed on your virtual machines, appear in the hosts start menu and can be run directly from this short cut. Very cool.

So, do you use any Virtual PC software? If so, share your tips and tricks right here! Maybe even state the pro's and con's of your virtual adventures too!

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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 30th Mar 2010 13:09
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its slooow

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Diggsey
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Posted: 30th Mar 2010 13:11 Edited at: 30th Mar 2010 13:12
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I use ubuntu on VirtualBox to compile the OS me and kaedroho are working on. I have a script running on ubuntu that compiles when a certain file is created. This file is in a folder shared between the host and client and is created when I click 'compile' from Code::Blocks. After compiling the ubuntu script creates another file with the error messages from the compiler in, which are then picked up by Code::Blocks. All the source code is also in the shared folder, so I can effectively not have to touch the ubuntu virtual machine once it starts up.


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JoelJ
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Posted: 30th Mar 2010 20:45
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I use Ubuntu as my primary OS but I still do a lot of C# development. So I installed my copy of 7 as a virtual machine using VirtualBox. VirtualBox has seamless mode, with essentially hides the desktop so all the Guest windows can be used side-to-side with the all the Host windows. It's really nice as it almost feels like I have Visual Studio installed on my Host.

Quote: "its slooow"

Get a new computer Of course it'll be slow on a low-end/old computer because you're essentially running two operating systems at the same time.

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Phaelax
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It's slow on any computer. I used an XP virtual machine on vista for eclipse/websphere development. The computer had 3GB of ram and was pretty new. I hate working in virtual machines!


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Quote: "The computer had 3GB of ram and was pretty new. I hate working in virtual machines!
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You have to give the VM enough ram to work with, otherwise it doesn't matter how much ram the host has. I have a Windows 7 64bit VM and I give it 1gb ram and it runs perfectly. But I do agree that I would much rather use a non-VM for work. But in some cases it's just a lot more convenient to work with a VM than it is to dual-boot.

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Darth Vader
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Posted: 31st Mar 2010 04:18
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I use VirtualXP mode and I've given it 2GB of RAM and it's still a little sluggish...

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Burning Feet Man
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It's a shame that modern 3D GPU's aren't supported in a virtual environment too, makes 3D applications relying completely on software rendering. But still, having multiple virtual OS's with different set ups is very handy, keeping the host OS free of clutter, compilers, etc.

I'm currently testing compilers in virtual machines, which compile to the temp directory of the host machine, allowing me to execute the applications in the host application.
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Quote: "It's a shame that modern 3D GPU's aren't supported in a virtual environment too"
Did not know that.
Maybe that's why games don't ever work...

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Quote: "It's a shame that modern 3D GPU's aren't supported in a virtual environment too"

VirtualBox supports hardware acceleration for linux, mac and windows clients

I'm running ubuntu on it with only 384MB of memory on an XP host machine with 1.5GB of memory, and it doesn't feel slow.


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