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copied!<p>I have been using VMWare as my primary development environment for a couple of years now.</p> <p><strong>Some Environments I typically switch between</strong></p> <ul> <li>Windows Forms / WPF Development (XP, .Net 3.5)</li> <li>Ruby Development - did one website in ruby (XP, Instant Rails)</li> <li>ASP.net 3.5 - for playing with new stuff (XP, .net 3.5, IIS, SQL Server)</li> <li>ASP.net 2.0 - sometime places are still stuck on 2.0 (XP, .net 2.0, IIS, SQL Server 2005)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Some things I have learned</strong></p> <ul> <li>Use XP not Vista. When you are running multiple vms, the extra fluff is really noticeable</li> <li>Give each VM around 1gb (sometimes as little as 512MB). You want to give them the least possible that prevents swapping for what you regularly do.</li> <li>Keep a snapshot of the base install for your stack, before doing any development.</li> <li>Quad Core + 8gb ram is cheap now. I typically have several vms running while developing. If you have less ram or cores, keep the number of running vms down.</li> <li>Turn off software mouse cursors and run in full screen mode (most people don't realize it's a vm until I show them).</li> </ul> <p><strong>Benifits</strong></p> <ul> <li>I can be up in running in any of my major stack in 5 minutes on any pc I own.</li> <li>I can move my entire development environment onto a laptop or another pc in a pinch.</li> <li>I can keep separate dev stacks around easily that can otherwise step on eachothers toes.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Hard Drives</strong>: Your first bottleneck is going to be RAM, but RAM is cheap now so there is no reason not to have 8-16gb. Your next major bottleneck is hard drives in a major way. I now try to have one hard disk per active virtual machine (used in a desktop workload, not server stuff). Raid setups can help tremendously and <strong>SSD's</strong> completely solve the problem if you can afford it. </p>

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