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I run ubuntu 12.04 on an i5-2500k, 16gb ddr3-1600 ram and intel ssd .. I currently have 4 windows vms running, 1 for adobe cs4, one for adobe cs6 (both windows
by 5h 14y ago
I run ubuntu 12.04 on an i5-2500k, 16gb ddr3-1600 ram and intel ssd .. I currently have 4 windows vms running, 1 for adobe cs4, one for adobe cs6 (both windows 7) and 2 xp vms for ie7/8 ... runs just fine, quite often have an IE6 vm running also.
using awesome wm for a triple head setup, which i guess is a lot lighter than unity or whatever.
I ran the same thing but in reverse before, windows 7 with a couple of linux VMs, for making web stuff to run on linux servers it was painful.
oh, and is it's vaguely relevant i bought the bits for a grand total of £700 excluding screens/keyboard/mouse/optical drive.
- w1ntermute 14y agoCan I ask you why you need a VM running CS4 and another one running CS6? And aren't there better ways to test sites with different browser versions?
- 5h 14y agobecause i've only just upgraded, and cloning a fresh VM & installing CS6 was quicker than installing it, then removing it when weird things happen (mostly plugins/file compatibility have pained me in the past). And sure there are lighter ways to test different browsers, but I don't trust them, been caught out before by silly differences like font rendering, testing eflyers outlook express/outlook etc, in the multi-ie-in-one-app things before, now i have a one-keystroke switch between an environment i can trust 100% to be authentic, and is easy to move around too. basically using vm's in this way is one of the things that let me sleep at night.