Not strictly in the spirit of the post, but I use a nice VM setup I thoroughly recommend:
- Host: OSX (2.4GHz i5, 8GB ram)
- Guest1: Ubuntu 10.10 (1.5GB ram allocated; acts as a LAMP server, available to Host and other Guests)
- Guest2: WinXP (1.5GB ram allocated - I use it for IE and for Xara)
This config eats RAM, but affords so many advantages:
1/ Makes my LAMP server portable. Can set up on new computer in no time
2/ Means I can experiment with server software and can revert when I break something
3/ Enables easy cross-PLATFORM browser testing which is vital if you care about fonts and pixels
4/ Can easily fake slow internet connections etc for web dev
5/ Gedit :P
6/ Nautilus :P
Major disadvantage is filesystem access speed.
- Host: OSX (2.4GHz i5, 8GB ram)
- Guest1: Ubuntu 10.10 (1.5GB ram allocated; acts as a LAMP server, available to Host and other Guests)
- Guest2: WinXP (1.5GB ram allocated - I use it for IE and for Xara)
This config eats RAM, but affords so many advantages:
1/ Makes my LAMP server portable. Can set up on new computer in no time
2/ Means I can experiment with server software and can revert when I break something
3/ Enables easy cross-PLATFORM browser testing which is vital if you care about fonts and pixels
4/ Can easily fake slow internet connections etc for web dev
5/ Gedit :P
6/ Nautilus :P
Major disadvantage is filesystem access speed.