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#VMWARE WORKSTATION FOR WEB DEVELOPMENT INSTALL#
#VMWARE WORKSTATION FOR WEB DEVELOPMENT CODE#
#VMWARE WORKSTATION FOR WEB DEVELOPMENT DOWNLOAD#

Relative to a developer’s time, memory is cheap, and putting 32 GB in a dev box is not unreasonable. Thus, 12 GB gets you off the ground, but doesn’t give you much room to move… so max it out. Therefore, the host operating system will need at least 8 + 4 GB to run its own stuff. If you’re talking about development tools, it will likely need to be somewhere around 8 GB. When you are firing up a “guest” virtual machine instance, you will assign it a certain amount of memory. But when adequate hardware was used, the difference was not significant enough to cause concern. And yes, the native performance was always faster than the virtualized development environment on the same physical machine. Since we had minimal investment in our virtual development environment approach (described below), the primary risk was performance. You can try out things and easily revert back to a good state, or start with the latest image again. With a virtualized environment, there is no risk anymore. New tools, versions, configurations, etc. Fast Recovery: As developers, we like to play with stuff.

You can sit down with any developer and things are where they should be.

#VMWARE WORKSTATION FOR WEB DEVELOPMENT INSTALL#

Environment Consistency: No more choices about where to install software or what versions were being used.

~1 hour to pull down the source code, run the initial build and walk through the environment configuration steps.

#VMWARE WORKSTATION FOR WEB DEVELOPMENT DOWNLOAD#

~1 hour to get logged in, install the VM software, and download the image.Fast Setup for New Developers: On my project, we had a new developer up and coding in a couple hours.You may ask why? What value does setting up a virtual development environment provide?

#VMWARE WORKSTATION FOR WEB DEVELOPMENT CODE#

If possible, I prefer to be able to code without requiring a network connection. I’m not an advocate of “cloud-based” development environments (yet). So, we embarked on the path of virtual development environments and found it to be successful.Ĭlarification note: I will be discussing localized virtual machines in this article. It was no longer unreasonable to purchase a machine with excessive (16 GB+) memory and an SSD. Well, I had heard horror stories of companies trying to do this using VMWare locally and Citrix server solutions, but two things were different now… Memory and Solid State Drives. This requirement caused us to go down the path of running our development environments in a virtual machine. I’ve seen it take anywhere from a couple days to a week depending on the environment.Ī few years ago, I joined a project that had an interesting requirement: They would NOT be supplying development workstations for us to use… we must supply our own. How long does it take for a new developer in your organization to get their environment set up?