One of the benefits of VMs is that it's usually quite easy to create a backup of a certain state, so that you can easily mess around with it, install lots of stuff, wreck the system, and then easily get back to the pristine state. Or do the same again three months later when you have to test the next version of the software…
That's one of the reason why I think that every company larger than one person should have a dedicated VM server…
What I still have to try is NFS mounting my Mac's $HOME directory. Introducing some special cases into the shell startup scripts etc. shouldn't be a big deal, but me and NFS had a bit of a tiff a few years ago…
That's one of the reason why I think that every company larger than one person should have a dedicated VM server…
What I still have to try is NFS mounting my Mac's $HOME directory. Introducing some special cases into the shell startup scripts etc. shouldn't be a big deal, but me and NFS had a bit of a tiff a few years ago…