Re: XP and Vista

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"John D. Sheridan" wrote:

"Timothy Daniels" wrote:
It sounds like a VM might come close to behaving like a real machine,
but only if you use "common denominator" type hardware devices. An
imagined scenario might be to use a VM in the early stages of development
to accommodate frequent crashes, but to move to a real machine as the
project progresses.

Or send the VM to another department for further development. VM's
can be moved from one host PC to another, without the hassle of
reinstallation. They can be backed up by simply copy a few files.
Big files, yes, but only a few.

Good point!

[......]
.... virtualization allows you to have several running at the same time
instead of having to shut one down to start another.


I realize you only mentioned switching between OSes, but have you
experienced timing problems when real machines talk to virtual machines
or when 2 virtual machines in the same real machine try to communicate
between each other?

*TimDaniels*


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