I know what it does, but why do people see it as adventagious to be running virtual machines on the same hardware, but why split the processes up on the same machine, unless you needed a different OS??
Four answers:
recentcoin2000
2008-03-31 09:00:19 UTC
Because I can buy one giant server instead of 40 small ones. I have less hardware to purchase and it ends up being cheaper. I can rent out VM's to people. I can move them around to another box. I can set up development env for each of my devs that's I know is unique.
Here there and everywhere
2008-03-31 09:06:54 UTC
1. When testing installation of software that you have written, for installation under multiple operating systems, you don't need to have a computer with one of each of the operating systems that you wish to test the installation on. Also, you can do a fresh 'test installation' by creating new virtual machines, that have no trace of a previous installation on.
2. When an installation of the OS on a virtual machine is messed up by somebody, all that you need to do to fix it is 'delete' the old machine and create a new virtual one, as a clone of the previous one before it was messed up.
Wes M
2008-03-31 09:01:57 UTC
The main reason people buy VMWare Fusion is to boot into Windows on a Mac without having to reboot the machine. Personally, I use Parallels to run XP whenever I need to do anything in Windows and VMWare to run Ubuntu Linux.
saranbrar
2008-03-31 09:00:56 UTC
VM Ware cuts your hardware cost drastically......
It is easy to move virtual machines compared to physical machines from one corner of the earth to another.
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