[ale] advice needed.

[Jim Lynch]

Joshua Kite wrote:
>
> Virtual machines have advanced in the past several years, but running 
> a separate OS and software in a VM does have some impact on performance.
>
> On the flip side, creating a VM shouldn't be that difficult.  It could 
> make implementation somewhat simpler, as it might make things a bit 
> more "cookie cutter."  And using a VM might save a company the cost of 
> purchasing a server that they might not otherwise buy.  I haven't used 
> VMWare's snapshots, but it does seem like those would provide a nice 
> backup solution.
So why not run a linux VM on a single Windows system rather than all of 
them?  Am I missing something?

Jim.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Josh Kite
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Atlanta Geek <atlantageek at gmail.com 
> <mailto:atlantageek at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     We have a web application that we sell to corporations for 1000 users.
>     Marketing has come back and asked for a 20 user solution. We tried
>     suggesting the SAAS approach but for accounting purposes this may be
>     more difficult for customers to agree too.
>
>     So the only other option is to do this as a vmware image that will run
>     on a windows platform. (The virtual machine would still be a linux
>     machine.)
>
>     I don't have a lot of experience with this. Does this sound
>     reasonable.  Im thinking that this may be great for simplifying
>     backups and that sort of thing. Is this reasonable for A windows user
>     to run a virtual machine on his PC?
>
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