Re: Behavior divergence in makefile vs. "in person".

   From: "Eric S. Johansson" <[email protected]>

   Bill Yerazunis wrote:
   > Yeah.  The problem is that with the prior hardware, there was no
   > way I could run even a VM.  I barely had disk space for my (legal!)
   > MP3's and some test spam.  
   > 
   > That's changed now; I might be able to have two or three VMs 
   > around at once.  :)

   bill, one trick I use for minimizing virtual machine size is to use
   the host filesystem to hold and share all of my working files
   between different virtual machines.  Just make each virtual machine
   about 8 GB using the expanding virtual machine file, mount your
   working file directory on the host OS via NFS and you should be
   good to go.  It also makes it easier to backup your virtual
   machines when they are not running.

Yep.  That was in the plan.

   If it turns out you guess wrong on the virtual machine file size,
   you can expand it and then boot up that virtual machine with a live
   CD version of gparted and expand the file system.

   I recommend working with virtual box instead of VM Ware.  It seems
   to be faster and is definitely easier to work with.

Actually, I was going to use Xen.  Reason: open source and free.

I don't mind paying for hardware.  I *do* mind paying for 
software, so I use free whenever possible.

Besides, "free" is also usually "better".

	 - Bill Yerazunis

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