On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 15:44 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote: > On Wed, April 25, 2007 7:10 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 16:26 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote: > >> On Wed, April 25, 2007 3:27 pm, Daniel Brown wrote: > >> > That's fine if you can find a shared host (as the OP states > >> he's > >> > using) > >> > that's willing to install it on their servers. > >> > >> Or you have a spare computer in your closet that you can install the > >> same OS as the server has, and the you compile the binary, and > >> upload > >> that, and then you can just 'exec' that. > > > > Bleh, this is the era of virtualization... instal vmware server and > > then > > have a any given distro virtualized as a development server for > > migrating binaries to production servers. I do this with various Red > > Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, and CentOS flavours. And it's the only way to run > > Windows to test in IE. > > I happen to have a lot of hardware laying around... > > Part of why I'm buying a house. > > Too much stuff. > > VMWare is nifty if your computer has the ooomph to handle it. > > I got turned off of VMWare early on, because I found myself endlessly > tweaking the RAM settings to get better performance out of whichever > VM I was needing at any given time, and it was too painful to do that. I first used vmware back in 2000 and thought it was cool then, but the currently free vmware server is a completely different beast than that was. First it provides common OS choices to choose form when installing an OS. It suggest what you should allocate as minimum and good memory settings, and it provides tabbing between multiple running VMs and also includes really easy bridged networking etc so your vms can transfer between the host computer and even other VMs. And of course, one of my favourite features is that it can now connect an ISO image on the host as the CDROM. Ditto for floppy disk images (if you want to install windows 3.11 like I did (for giggles and farts :)) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
