Re: confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

[Larry Martell <larry.martell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Jonathan Nilsson <jnilsson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Yeah, I know, but they (and I) want my environment to match their
>> > production deployment, and that will not be using a VM.
>>
>
> do they all run with dual-booting Windows/CentOS systems? is their
> environment filled with laptops running CentOS?

This is a new system, but yes, it will be deployed on laptops running CentOS.

> If you can tell the difference from inside the environment, you did
>> something wrong.
>>
>
> well, a few differences: if you run a VM you won't be needing to load any
> custom hardware drivers (especially wifi, just use bridged/shared
> networking). also you won't get any of the hardware keys on the laptop to
> work within the virtual machine. and i'm not sure what happens if you close
> the laptop - windows may not be able to hibernate/suspend if the VM is
> running.
>
> but still, i'd advocate going the virtual machine route.

I didn't come here to debate VM's. I was just looking for someone to
say "Yeah, I used the CentOS partitioning it and it worked like a
charm" or "I used it and it was a disaster."
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