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On 30/12/2014 21:52, Mick wrote: |
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> For years now I have been running VirtualBox for testing purposes. |
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> It has served the users' needs well, but I have set up a new PC and am |
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> wondering if I am missing out on new tricks. The VMs are launched may be a |
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> couple of times a week for an hour or two, to test website designs on |
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> different OS' and browsers. The Vbox does this flawlessly. Is there a |
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> different technology and applications I should consider and how do these |
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> compare with Vbox? |
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You have a simple use-case there which any VM technology can fulfil. |
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You have a working solution that does everything you need it to do and |
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it's familiar to you. |
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I'm not seeing any good reason to change it, unless you feel like |
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playing with new toys, but that's never a good reason to change |
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something in production. |
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If you often create new VMs with different configuration and it's |
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becoming a pain setting them all up anew each time, look into |
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vagrant/docker/ansible for ways to automate that process. These apps |
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support every VM platform out there |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |