"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> Gail wrote:
>
>> Virtual machines are soooo useful. I've been using them for some time to 
>> test out beta software that I don't want breaking my machine, or to try 
>> out things that I know are going to break stuff (hence the name of the 
>> VPC in the picture)
>
> My PC at work is barely powerful enough to run *one* OS, let alone two. It 
> _would_ be quite useful for test purposes though.

That's one of the main reasons I went for a quad core with lots of memory 
when I upgraded. So that I could have a couple of virtuals running and still 
have the base machine usable.
For example, this afternoon, I was doing performance testing on SQL 2008 on 
the base machine while I had a virtual running that was doing a 2005-2008 
upgrade

> However, the idea of being able to just plug in a USB stick and click an 
> icon and instantly have a complete Linux environment set up exactly the 
> way I want it is... pretty neat, actually.

You might have problems with IO speed if you do that. USB is a lot slower 
than SATA.

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