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How did the term “hypervisor” come into use?
I've read about the "hypervisor" in hardware virtualization. VMs are not my area, so I can't quite see where the term came from.
THe wikipedia article talks about how "the hardware's supervisor ...
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Best Way to test Applications on Different Machine Configurations? [closed]
I'm developing a Windows Application and would love the ability to test it in different environments. For instance a 32-bit Windows Server 2008 as well as an XP machine and a 64-bit Vista, etc. Is ...
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Mirror virtualized development environment
I work alone in some iOS projects in a local environment.
I have been thinking in a way to be able to share my development environment between my Mac Mini and my MacBook. I mostly work at home in the ...
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Why would more CPU cores on virtual machine slow compile times?
[edit#2] If anyone from VMWare can hit me up with a copy of VMWare Fusion, I'd be more than happy to do the same as a VirtualBox vs VMWare comparison. Somehow I suspect the VMWare hypervisor will be ...
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Azure Drives, Azure Disks, Azure Images - What are the performance and cost tradeoffs?
I understand REST-based storage, and how xDrive (PDC 2209) works, but I'm confused by all the drive types specified in this MSDN blog post.
That blog describes Drives -vs- Disks (which sound ...
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what programming languages and skills are necessary to learn hypervisor development?
I would like to know the skills and programming languages necessary to learn hypervisor development and any good resource to start learning?
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Isolated environment for software stacks
I was sure that I would find this question, but I couldn't. How to create an isolated development environment? It other words, a sandbox, where I can install different combinations of web servers, ...
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Should a development machine be inside a VM?
This post by Rob Conery (note the slug) says that development environment should be run inside a virtual machine. I see what he's saying and tend to agree, but still feel a little uneasy. Now that ...
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Virtualized Development Environments in Enterprise Networks
We are attempting to implement a development environment using virtualization for a small team of 4 developers within an enterprise organization. This would allow us to set up separate development, ...
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Boss wants to covert all developers to virtualized desktops…help [duplicate]
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Thoughts on Development using Virtual Machines
My boss has been singing the praises of leveraging virtualized desktops for all our developers in the company - about 100 ...
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What is the best way to maintain software tool chains?
Short Question
What is the best way to create, maintain, and distribute software development tool chains?
Background
I am trying to develop a workflow / process to create an isolated environment in ...
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Thoughts on Development using Virtual Machines
I'll be working as a development lead for a startup and I've suggested that we use VMs for development. I'm not talking about each developer having a desktop with VMs for testing/development, I mean ...
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Web Site Development Software for VirtualBox Ubuntu 11.04
I'm doing some development of a website on a VirtualBox guest running Ubuntu 11.04 (host is running Windows, but I want to do the web development in a Linux environment). My development languages are ...
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Disposable Virtual Machines for QA environments
I'm far from an expert in virtualization, so pardon my ignorance.
I've had this idea (really doubt it's original, haven't looked much into the topic) of "disposable" virtual machines for QA ...
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How are you setting up re-usable development environments?
I'm trying to come up with a good approach to creating a re-usable development environment such that it doesn't take a couple days to re-build a machine if it starts to sputter and to be able to ...
