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<blockquote data-quote="scotartt" data-source="post: 1058306" data-attributes="member: 21303"><p>Nethfel thanks for that useful information. I'll have a look at that VMWare Converter, I didn't know it existed. Quite possibly for us things like like Unity are not so important because we are using this really to deploy servers for development purposes on our consultant's laptops ... which generally means we also don't care so much for the server-class virtualisation offerings because they'll be built manually anyway (and not inherit our crappy development configurations). I am not sure if we care too much about NAT either ... it's possibly a choice between host-only or bridged.</p><p></p><p>For example I have a JeOS headless Linux install that runs OracleXE in host-only mode so I can deploy small Oracle-based databases for development on my Mac. On my Linux machine I can of course just install XE directly. But if I needed SOA Suite then I'd do it in a VM even on my Linux desktop. That would be the sort of thing (SOA Suite and the like can't be headless, they need a desktop to install, but potentially will run in host-only anyway).</p><p></p><p>It's the sort of thing I think we'd be looking at doing even if we went down the Windows laptop environment anyway. Once you put something like SOA Suite or Oracle Webcenter on a machine it gets it's claws into it everywhere and it becomes super-painful to wipe it away or drastically alter its configuration. So virtualisation of development servers on the developer's local machine makes sense for us in general; we can set up any number of standardised server images which can be started or stopped or re-imaged as needed for particular development tasks. I think the "powers that be" just need to be reassured that we can interchange these development images between Windows, Mac and Linux desktop hosts. </p><p></p><p>And VMWare Converter looks the go for that, thanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scotartt, post: 1058306, member: 21303"] Nethfel thanks for that useful information. I'll have a look at that VMWare Converter, I didn't know it existed. Quite possibly for us things like like Unity are not so important because we are using this really to deploy servers for development purposes on our consultant's laptops ... which generally means we also don't care so much for the server-class virtualisation offerings because they'll be built manually anyway (and not inherit our crappy development configurations). I am not sure if we care too much about NAT either ... it's possibly a choice between host-only or bridged. For example I have a JeOS headless Linux install that runs OracleXE in host-only mode so I can deploy small Oracle-based databases for development on my Mac. On my Linux machine I can of course just install XE directly. But if I needed SOA Suite then I'd do it in a VM even on my Linux desktop. That would be the sort of thing (SOA Suite and the like can't be headless, they need a desktop to install, but potentially will run in host-only anyway). It's the sort of thing I think we'd be looking at doing even if we went down the Windows laptop environment anyway. Once you put something like SOA Suite or Oracle Webcenter on a machine it gets it's claws into it everywhere and it becomes super-painful to wipe it away or drastically alter its configuration. So virtualisation of development servers on the developer's local machine makes sense for us in general; we can set up any number of standardised server images which can be started or stopped or re-imaged as needed for particular development tasks. I think the "powers that be" just need to be reassured that we can interchange these development images between Windows, Mac and Linux desktop hosts. And VMWare Converter looks the go for that, thanks. [/QUOTE]
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