Do you run a virtual machine?

[FelixDeCat]

Just curious. :ninja:

 

[eldorado99]

no

 

[Maximilian]

I had a windows 98 one to play simcity 2000 until i got bored burning down cities. Used it to play simtower as well until i remembered what a pain in the ass that game could be, cant delete laundry things or security rooms wtf? Nobody wants to live in my fkin tower wtf?

EDIT: What happened to FelixDeCat?

 

[DominionSeraph]

I ain't running DOS...

 

[SSSnail]

Yes, various. Why do you ask?

 

[HAL9000]

No, but I'm seriously considering it, I might amalgamate my servers into a single server with a load of virtual servers installed on it.

 

[xSauronx]

yeah, I have a couple of server 2008 vms, and a couple of windows client vms that I use for school or as a lab environment before I try something at work now and again

 

[FelixDeCat]

I had a windows 98 one to play simcity 2000 until i got bored burning down cities. Used it to play simtower as well until i remembered what a pain in the ass that game could be, cant delete laundry things or security rooms wtf? Nobody wants to live in my fkin tower wtf?

EDIT: What happened to FelixDeCat?

Cool. I changed my screen name because it was time. It was unique and I liked it, but it was too unique.

 

[Engineer]

I run an image of my work laptop at home so I could work on projects when outside of work (pulled projects from work server, did work and e-mailed results back to work e-mail). Very handy (XP-Pro laptop image on Windows 7 - 64 bit using VMWare Player)

 

[SKORPI0]

VMware Workstation with Windows 7 and Parallels 7 with OS X Lion.

 

[Maximilian]

Cool. I changed my screen name because it was time. It was unique and I liked it, but it was too unique.

RIP FelixDeCat :'(

 

[destrekor]

I run one that I'm trying to turn into my security environment, in a way.
multifactor authentication, digital signatures, card reader, and lazy services integration (among other things) all adds up to having none of it, or locking it all down in a VM - otherwise, all the software involved completely fucks up Windows in a way that cannot be repaired, save for a format and clean install.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Yes, various. Why do you ask?

Interesting. Anyway, Im experimenting with a TOR VM for browsing.

 

[lxskllr]

Sometimes. Mostly GNU/Linux, or testing Windows programs.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Have a standard XP VM on everyone of my machines running under VirtualBox.
Very handy for browsing untrusted sites

 

[RavenSEAL]

All of our servers at my university run VMs, being cheap FTW.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I have a few production ones, and every now and then I might turn one up for testing something.

3 of them are for my game server. The data storage server (basically a MySql box) the dev environment, and the test environment. The prod environment is on a separate leased server and is also in a VM. It's a .net app so it has to run in windows. I also have another vm for p2p/torrents that runs Transmission. I just like to keep it separate as it'is out of sight out of mind, kinda deal and I can just turn it off if I need to do a flush of the network connections.

currently I'm using Virtualbox, but I want to switch to a platform that is more "server targetted". Virtualbox requires to have the console window open for it to work. There is a headless mode, but then you can't get the console at all. I may try out xen or proxmox. I ordered a new server so I can play with it on without messing with my prod environment.

 

[SSSnail]

Interesting. Anyway, Im experimenting with a TOR VM for browsing.

I mainly use Oracle's Virtualbox and *nix variants for OS. GL, and have fun.

 

[child of wonder]

Have a pair of ESXi 5 servers in my home lab all connected to a ZFS SAN. About 20 VMs total.

 

[SolMiester]

I have about 20 VMs on 2 Live Hosts, and about 12 on a test host (all at work), at home I have linux VMs on VMplayer, but dont use them much

 

[lxskllr]

Interesting. Anyway, Im experimenting with a TOR VM for browsing.

Don't forget to turn on NoScript. It's inexplicably turned off by default.

 

[Leros]

I used to run a Linux virtual machine for development at home, but I've switched my home computers to dual boot Linux and I just stay in Linux most of the time. No need to dual boot anymore.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Yes -- I had 6 or 7 running at home (now down to 3) and I designed our VMWare environment at work which has several dozen.

 

[Vic Vega]

Yeah, lots.

 

[nageov3t]

at home? no, I have no reason to.

but we do a lot of stuff with vmware at work.