OK, does anyone use the VM installation (*nix under Win, or Win under
Win) not only for development and testing, but for some more or less
critical task?

Personally, I think, I would not use VM at all, I woiuld just install
another system in a new partition. Rebooting is not a big hassle
compared to the hassle of troubleshhoting Windows potentially affected
by the VM installation.


William "Chops" Westfield  wrote:
> How and why are people using virtual machines for
> development work ?
>

cdb wrote:
> I use my VM's to try out beta versions or
> one off installations. So MBLAB X Beta is in a VM at the moment.
>
> I also use VM's for testing software on different OS's. I do have one
> programming tool that only runs on XP 32bit so my W7 64bit host system ha=
s
> XP 32bit VM to run that tool.

Isaac Marino Bavaresco wrote:
> I run Linux inside VMWare to cross-compile the Linux kernel and device
> drivers for ARM MCUs.
> Applications can be compiled under Windows, but the kernel builds only
> under Linux itself.

Chris McSweeny wrote:
> My dev machine is a Windows box, and right now I'm using one to test
> Linux stuff (whilst still having access to all the Windows based tools
> I need - often I run a very minimal Linux install). Others on my team
> use them to make Linux builds.

Sergey Dryga wrote:
> separate VMs to try new software.  Host Linux box used for web developmen=
t
> (LAMP) and for QT development to talk to/control embedded systems and to =
program
> PICs.
>
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