Thanks Guys, No concerns, was just asking who out there was also doing this. Thanks -Lee
On 3/15/2012 3:47 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > On 3/15/2012 5:55 PM, Lee Studley wrote: >> Anyone use VMware under windows host to run LinuxCNC development. I'm >> really interested in you thoughts as I setting this up. >> >> > > Lee: > > I haven't used VMware since I retired some years ago but I routinely > run various Linix'en in VirtualBox. VirtualBox seems to be equivalent > to VMware in functionality for what I do. > > Right now, I have a Windows7 host with VirtualBox running a full > virtual Ubuntu development-environment for LinuxCNC. It was trivial to > setup and works great. I have pulled from various git branches as the > spirit moves me. The only difference from running Ubuntu on bare metal > is that I build only LinuxCNC simulators for testing. > > One of the things I really like is the ability to build a "master" > disk image of some distribution and then "clone" it whenever I feel > the need to run from a clean copy, or want to have try out variants > side-by-side. No matter how badly I screw up, I can be back on the air > in a matter of minutes. Sure beats reinstalling from an iso. By the > way, this approach makes sense to me with either a Linux- or > Windows-based real host. > > I have seen no downside here. What is your concern? > > Regards, > Kent > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
