Hello Nadav,
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002, Omer Zak wrote about "Options (Re: VMware and competing
>products)":
> > And, are there any other options, which I overlooked?
>
> If I understand correctly, you're interested in long, non-interactive,
> compilations, not in interactivedevelopment (which you say you're doing
> on a Linux machine anyway).
Actually, my situation is:
1. The compilations are short (few minutes long for the entire project).
2. The SDKs contain also emulators, which I sometimes use to test the
compiled software.
> In this case, why do you need at all to concurrently run several copies of
> Windows? If you're *sure* you can't install the two SDKs at the same time,
> why not write a script that will copy files around to switch the SDKs?
The SDKs use separate file namespaces. The conflicts are in the Registry
and environment variables.
> Perhaps (if it's not too slow) even install/uninstall them every time
> automatically. If that can't work, and compilations are to be long enough
> (or you don't care about turnaround time), you can keep two Windowspartitions
> and reboot to switch compilers.
I don't care about the time it takes to switch from one SDK to another
SDK, but the installation/uninstallation processes are not automated.
The suggestion to dedicate a Windows partition to each SDK may work, if it
is possible to hide all unwanted partitions when rebooting the machine to
use a certain SDK. We'd have to partition the machine to have the
maximum allowed number of partitions, to have room for future SDKs, but
this can be done in the era of 80GB hard disks.
I like the idea of using VMware (or a similar product) due to other
reasons, but it will be nice to save money if we can get by without using
VMware.
--- Omer
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