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How many operating systems do you have on your development machine?   [Edit]

Survey period: 21 Jan 2008 to 28 Jan 2008

Are you a single, dual or even triple boot kinda developer? (and DOS doesn't count!)

OptionVotes% 
1 only1,50164.56
Dual boot54323.35
31586.80
4431.85
5 or more803.44



 
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The ANZAC26-Jan-08 14:16
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GeneralXP Pin
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar25-Jan-08 3:52
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GeneralVirtualization!! PinPopular
giammin22-Jan-08 3:46
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John M. Drescher22-Jan-08 4:01
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nightynvid22-Jan-08 7:33
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giammin22-Jan-08 7:39
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Plamen Dragiyski22-Jan-08 11:32
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John M. Drescher22-Jan-08 12:17
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GeneralRe: Virtualization!! Pin
The ANZAC26-Jan-08 14:18
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GeneralDual Boot Pin
qumer10121-Jan-08 23:00
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GeneralVista Pin
R.Jaw21-Jan-08 19:11
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GeneralOther boxes and virtual machines Pin
mightypigeon21-Jan-08 17:19
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GeneralPeople still multi-boot? Pin
dandy7221-Jan-08 3:53
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Luca Leonardo Scorcia21-Jan-08 4:01
professionalLuca Leonardo Scorcia21-Jan-08 4:01 
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dandy7221-Jan-08 6:42
dandy7221-Jan-08 6:42 
Luca Leonardo Scorcia wrote:
Not all hardware runs virtualized enviroments well.


...those would be the circumstances where I mentioned I'd use a separate physical machine. If I just need to do a quick test on, say, a plain Win2K box (which is something I'd never use otherwise) with no particular hardware requirement, a VM will serve my needs. I suppose it all depends on what it is you need to do while you've got those other OSes up and running.


I have a P4 2.6 GHz HT with 2 GBs of RAM, and while the machine is quite well performing (considering it's ~3 years old), I found that multi-boot is the best option so far: VMs are incredibly slow here.


I've run VMware and Virtual PC/Server on older hardware. Of course, yes, the virtual machines are slower than running natively, but whatever it is I need to test, I can still accomplish that faster than stopping my development environment, rebooting, doing my tests, rebooting again, and getting my development environment back in the state it was in. It would only get more painful to code/test/code/test if I had to reboot every single time. I'd rather put up with slower guest OSes.

If the host OS is starved for RAM, I can just suspend the VMs until I need them again--it's still faster to resume a VM than completely rebooting the physical machine. If that becomes too much of a pain, then I'll throw more RAM at the host; it'll pay for itself in no time.

Bottom line, my productivity as a developer can't be optimal if I spend half my time waiting for a machine to reboot. I've done it for so many years, I couldn't justify going down that route ever again.
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Nemanja Trifunovic21-Jan-08 6:19
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dandy7221-Jan-08 6:45
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werD21-Jan-08 7:58
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