Doing Development: Setting up VMware Server
This is the first part in what will be an ongoing set of articles on setting up and getting ready to do development. Before one begins to do any sort of development there needs to be somewhere to do it. With the advent of modern computers and the amazing amount of horsepower that they now contain virtualization makes a great way to set up a perfect, portable environment that gives a developer an incredible amount of control over their work environment.
There are many different virtualization options available now that processors support virtualization directly on the hardware and the aforementioned abundance of computing power. Linux and Windows users can choose from qemu, KVM, VirtualBox, VMware Player/Workstation/Server, Parallels and Xen (Windows misses out on KVM and Xen).
Out of that list, VMware has been in the virtualization business for a long time and as a result have wonderfully robust codebases for virtualization. It is because of this I will be setting up VMware Server, a free-as-in-beer product that allows a user to create virtual machines. The added benefit is that the end user can easily move this VM from machine to machine and even between VMware products.
Twitter Updates for 2008-07-22
- I love it when an SVN branch successfully merges #
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Install Webmin on Ubuntu 8.04
I installed Ubuntu on a second machine earlier this week as a small file server as I’m gearing up to format and reinstall my main computer. As normal with my Linux servers it will run headless with just a power cord and a network cable attached.
One thing I cheat with on my headless machines (at home, never on a production server) is installing Webmin. It is great if you know what you are doing since Webmin gives you an incredible amount of power. I SSHed into the box and fired off the aptitude command to install Webmin.
There is no Webmin package in the Ubuntu repositories. I have no idea why, but it is not there. So, who do you get it installed?
Twitter Updates for 2008-07-21
- Back on twhirl. Digsby got too confusing to follow twitter updates #
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Doing Development Series
I hope you will join me as a start a 5 part series of posts entitled ‘Doing Development.’ This series of articles will detail what I use for doing all of my development work both professional and personal. As anyone who has done serious web development knows, there is more to creating an application than just opening a code editor and hacking away.
The Lineup
- Setting up VMware Server
- Installing OpenBSD
- Setting up Apache
- Setting up Eclipse
- Setting up Subversion
I will publish one article a week in addition to any other regular posts that I have. Any comments are welcome as I’d love to hear how other people do their development.