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Nelek14-Nov-18 9:04
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theoldfool14-Nov-18 5:14
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1. Like J.J. said. Done it, works.

2. Pedestrian view (IANAL): You have a license to run the OS on that machine. You are still running it on that same hardware. You very well may have to re-activate. I have never actually read the eula before clicking yes.

3. Production stuff (servers), Bare metal. We run our servers on ESXi. Tried MS's hyperV in the early days but ESXi ran faster. No religion here, just made that decision years ago and haven't revisited. The hosting system has very little direct access to VM's, you connect remotely. Manage from another system. That is the Vmware approach anyway.

I do (stuff like you see on QA) development work on VM's (Linux and Windows) running on a Linux host with Vmware's workstation. Started with version 4 (from ebay) many years ago. VirtualBox, OTOH, is free. Vmware Player is free. Nobody in their right mind would test my stuff on hardware. Big Grin | :-D

Unless you are familiar with Linux, or want to learn it, you may want to stay with Windows and just keep an off line image that you refresh weekly or so. After all, Windows gets updated in VM's same as hardware.

or

Hard drives are cheap. Install Linux on one, install a VM host (Virtualbox or Vmware, provides 30 day free "try it you'll like it plan"). Give it a try. Your hardware will determine how well a VM will perform. Need plenty of memory and should run VM's from separate hard drive (SSD).
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.

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