From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 24 17:43:39 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E71DA106564A for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:43:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ECA48FC17 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:43:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O5jOD-0005zG-7q for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:43:37 +0200 Received: from pool-71-166-133-192.washdc.east.verizon.net ([71.166.133.192]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:43:37 +0200 Received: from nightrecon by pool-71-166-133-192.washdc.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:43:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org connect(): No such file or directory From: Michael Powell Followup-To: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:46:10 -0400 Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <4BD2D562.1000201@maydias.com> <20100424115327.GA17040@orion.hsd1.pa.comcast.net> <201004241032.14258.mike.jeays@rogers.com> <3354964932-1661095567@intranet.com.mx> <20100424150910.GA45074@orion.hsd1.pa.comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-71-166-133-192.washdc.east.verizon.net Subject: Re: Installation queries X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:43:40 -0000 Glen Barber wrote: > Hi, > > Jorge Biquez wrote: >> I would like to hear if possible your comments and advice on this >> taht's related .. >> >> What if you have a to have several OS and distros to study or give >> consulting and developing services. I have this scenario now and I >> guess I have this optios. [snip] >> > > VirtualBox? YES! >> Thinking that you are looking to continue learning and you are >> offering consulting services where clients have different >> instllations. What would you choose of the above, if any? Or what would >> you do? >> > > FWIW, I run VirtualBox on all of my FreeBSD machines and my > Mac for similar purposes. It is much more convenient than carrying around > extra disks or obscure disk partitioning. > Me too. I have an AMD quad core and 8GB RAM. Virtualbox is one of the most painless ways to do this. Whichever OS you install in a VM it won't run as fast as it can if not a VM, but on the larger horsepower box it is very nearly unnoticeable. It's close enough that I'm quite satisfied. In fact it is what I do if I need Office for anything, fire up a Windows VM. I originally started doing this with a Pentium D 940 and 2GB RAM and it made the box a little sluggish. The move up to the higher horsepower box eliminated that. Virtualbox and higher horsepower gets my vote over continually monkeying around with altering slice/partitioning schemes. The more often you mess with that the higher the chance that you sooner or later make a little 'uh oh' and lose gobs of time wiping your drive and starting over. -Mike