My primary development environment is a VMware virtual machine with Ubuntu LTS getting 2GB out of my MacBook Air's 4GB of RAM. I usually run a database, a web server, a couple of browsers and PyCharm (Java) in the virtual machine and another browser with many tabs in the host OS.
What I wanted to point out is that everything works perfectly and I can instantly switch between applications and in/out of the VM just fine.
Backing up the VM is of course as simple as copying ~40GB to an external drive or the desktop at home (gigabit ethernet ftw) and the nice thing is that I can have multiple versions of it on various machines.
What I wanted to point out is that everything works perfectly and I can instantly switch between applications and in/out of the VM just fine.
Backing up the VM is of course as simple as copying ~40GB to an external drive or the desktop at home (gigabit ethernet ftw) and the nice thing is that I can have multiple versions of it on various machines.