<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Would some RPi's suffice to run the VMs? cheaper and smaller than a desktop. Or maybe surplussed laptops?<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Leam Hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com" target="_blank">leamhall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Okay, so this is a pain. I tried to fire up Puppet Enterprise on my laptop and a couple base CentOS VMs. It took me almost 15 minutes and a reboot to regain control of the machine! The hardware just isn't there.<br>
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My near term goal is to get decent at Puppet, so I need some learning VMs. I can do AWS small instances and pay not a lot if I remember to shut them down after I'm done testing. Or I could buy a server and set it under my desk.<br>
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At this point I'm thinking the former. We're trying to live with less and I don't really care to have more hardware around the house. Well, actually, I do want more, but I more want to do with less.<br>
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