Everyone seems to have an obsession with Virtual Machines for running / trying out Linux. If this is you, whats you're reason? :)
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Everyone seems to have an obsession with Virtual Machines for running / trying out Linux. If this is you, whats you're reason? :)
I got Ubuntu 6 installed on HD and Ubuntu 7 beta,server,FC 6,open suse on virtual machines.
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)
I use VM installs of Linux for testing purposes...if something screws up it's easy to revert without affecting a live system.
Virtual Machines are very good for testing stuff and running linux on a virtual machine is a hassle free way of learning linux
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.
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.
I love the snapshot ability. If I mess things up, I can just revert the machine.
Gr,
Mightor
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 :)Quote:
Originally Posted by wossname
Well fine then, tar and gzip the file afterwards!!
not until dd can read and write gzip compressed files.
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Originally Posted by Arrow_Raider
My point was that vmware snapshots take about 30s to revert to, this would take a LOT longer :)Code:dd if=<disk> | gzip -c > <file> # make dd write a gziped file
gunzip -c <file> | dd of=<disk> # make dd read a gzipped file :)
Gr,
Mightor
Picky picky picky. :D