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Super Lloyd wrote:
We did try to work on VM at work... Using local HyperV VM running on local drive... But it was just too damn painful to use...


The bottleneck is almost always disk I/O. Use SSDs, use RAID, use whatever you can to speed it up. Then throw RAM at it.

Right now, my i7-4820K machine is running 14 VMs (running side-by-side, not merely present but powered off), using 48 of its 64GB of RAM. I'm sure there's some overhead in having things virtualized - I've never run anything native on this machine so I can't compare, but all VMs are pretty snappy and responsive, and I've never had a reason to believe the CPU is a problem (or the i7-2600K I used to use before that as a host, 3 or 4 years ago).

The simplified backup process, as well as the ability to very quickly spin up a new VM, is well worth the expenditure in hardware IMO.
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