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wossname
Apr 6th, 2007, 11:54 AM
Everyone seems to have an obsession with Virtual Machines for running / trying out Linux. If this is you, whats you're reason? :)
litlewiki
Apr 6th, 2007, 05:23 PM
I got Ubuntu 6 installed on HD and Ubuntu 7 beta,server,FC 6,open suse on virtual machines.
ProphetBeal
Apr 6th, 2007, 05:53 PM
I really haven't used Linux enough ( or know enough about it) to worrant me giving it its own partition or full pc. That's what a vm is for, if after tring it out i decide i want to use it more then i'll move it to another area (partition or pc)
CyberSurfer
Apr 10th, 2007, 08:20 AM
I use VM installs of Linux for testing purposes...if something screws up it's easy to revert without affecting a live system.
Arrow_Raider
Apr 11th, 2007, 08:12 AM
Virtual Machines are very good for testing stuff and running linux on a virtual machine is a hassle free way of learning linux
TomGibbons
Apr 11th, 2007, 05:34 PM
Whenever I want to try a different distro out to see what all the fuss is about, I'll generally run it in a VM. It's just quicker and it's always temporary.
eSPiYa
May 8th, 2007, 11:28 PM
For 14 years I'm using computers, I'm not aware that MS Windows/DOS is not the only OS that exist.

I'm using Virtual Machine to test Cross-Platform Development/Deployment.
mightor
May 10th, 2007, 01:42 AM
I love the snapshot ability. If I mess things up, I can just revert the machine.

Gr,
Mightor
wossname
May 10th, 2007, 07:41 AM
You can do that with normal installs anyway. Just dump the entire partition to a file. Easy peasy. You don't even have to mount the drive to do it.

cat </dev/hda2 >mywholedisc_backupfile
mightor
May 10th, 2007, 09:02 AM
You can do that with normal installs anyway. Just dump the entire partition to a file. Easy peasy. You don't even have to mount the drive to do it.

cat </dev/hda2 >mywholedisc_backupfile
But a vmware snapshot isn't as big as your partition :)
CyberSurfer
May 10th, 2007, 11:43 AM
Well fine then, tar and gzip the file afterwards!!
Arrow_Raider
May 10th, 2007, 12:21 PM
not until dd can read and write gzip compressed files.
mightor
May 10th, 2007, 12:33 PM
not until dd can read and write gzip compressed files.
dd if=<disk> | gzip -c > <file> # make dd write a gziped file
gunzip -c <file> | dd of=<disk> # make dd read a gzipped file :)

My point was that vmware snapshots take about 30s to revert to, this would take a LOT longer :)

Gr,
Mightor
wossname
May 10th, 2007, 01:00 PM
Picky picky picky. :D