NYCPHP Meetup

[Gary Mort]

On 9/2/2011 1:46 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote:
> BTW is this virtualization new to you guys? I was running VirtualBox 
> back in 2006... -- Aj. 

It's fairly new for me.  I've never had a system fast enough to really 
run it, and never felt like I needed it.

Late last year when my laptop died, I decided I was doing most of my 
work from one place anyway, and I was playing around a lot with EC2, so 
I wanted a way to simulate a cloud at home without having to connect to 
the outside world or pay their fees.  So I decided to get a desktop for 
the same money as a laptop, but make sure to get lots of hard drive 
space, memory, and 6 core CPU....

Original plan had been to put KVM on it and load windows into a Virtual 
OS...   But the windows install disks that came with it won't install to 
anything but this hardware, so I'm going the other way[VirtualBox on 
Windows].

Still, I didn't want 6 different VM systems for each config, so being 
able to boil it all down to one system with virtual hosting makes my 
life sooo easy.   And being able to use the linux box as a DNS 
server/cache speeds up regular internet usage tremendously.