On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:26:05 -0800, Yi Qiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 12/12/06, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> IMHO, it is also important to test specific flavors of linux >> (eg, debian, redhat, freeBSD) and windows types (windows XP, >> vista). Laptops could probably be used for this. >> > Wouldn't something like VMWare Server on a reasonably powerful machine > do exactly that? There are also other solutions such as OpenVZ and > Xen. I saw a demo of Virtuozzo by one of the employees and it looked > very cool. I think we should leverage the power and in this > particular case, space efficiency of virtualization as much as > possible :) I think that the OSX is the only exception, but I see a > Mac Pro is already on the list. I agree completely with Yi. The point of purchasing machines is to test different hardware platforms. For different OS installs, we just need to use some virtualization software. That said, I tried pretty hard to setup VMWare server once and failed miserably. If anybody (especially a student at UW) were interested in setting up some sort of virtualization system, it would be appreciated. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
