{"id":33,"date":"2008-09-20T11:19:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T15:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rlisolutions.com\/misc\/33\/virtual-machines\/"},"modified":"2015-05-09T16:20:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T20:20:30","slug":"virtual-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/tech-tips\/33\/virtual-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I\u2019m a contract developer, I work for many different clients.&#160; That means, I need many different work environments.&#160; The simplest solution to this, is to use Virtual Machines.<\/p>\n<p>I used to use VMWare.&#160; Now that I have a TechNet subscription, I\u2019m playing with Virtual PC 2007.&#160; So far, it works pretty well.&#160; Very similar to VMware.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be researching tips on how to keep the VM\u2019s as small as possible, yet still fast.&#160; I plan on setting up a base Windows XP with SP3, and then copy that as my starting point for each client.&#160; It\u2019s rare that I use any OS other than XP.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>I will make a VM of Ubuntu though.&#160; I want to play with that some more, and I don\u2019t want to dual-boot at this point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> To get the Virtual PC to release your mouse, hit the [hostkey].&#160; By default, this is the Right Alt.<\/p>\n<p>There are more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.essjae.com\/VPC\/virtual_pc_faq.htm\">Virtual PC Tips here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I\u2019m a contract developer, I work for many different clients.&#160; That means, I need many different work environments.&#160; The simplest solution to this, is to use Virtual Machines. I used to use VMWare.&#160; Now that I have a TechNet subscription, I\u2019m playing with Virtual PC 2007.&#160; So far, it works pretty well.&#160; Very similar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[45,46,47,49,50],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips","tag-technet","tag-ubuntu","tag-virtual-pc","tag-vmware","tag-windows-xp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}