id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 3004 Cyzyk, Mark Editorial Board Thoughts: Just Like Being There, or How I Learned To Stop Coveting Bare Metal and Learned to Love My VM 2011-06-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1119 64 71 are all polite people, I can't really use the term I buy a new workstation these days that's not incredibly powerful, and incredibly inexpensive?), so my need for .org/) to create virtual machines (VMs), lopped-off hunks a virtual hard disk, boot order, access to host CD drives, install an OS onto it, the "guest" OS, in the usual way. can create a new VM in mere seconds; then it's all a matter of how difficult the OS is to install, and the Linux uses of VMs because, again, this is a family program OS promiscuity, how are VMs useful in an actual work install and test something that is *NIX-only, I don't need Using a virtual machine facilitates the easy exploration of new operating systems and new applications, and development and test server on VMs physically sitting on though because when I needed access to my own server, ./cache/3004.pdf ./txt/3004.txt