Re: All VM-based development

On 1/9/2025 9:54 PM, Don Y wrote:

Has anyone tried moving entirely to VM-based systems for
their (hardware/software/documentation) development efforts?
Admittedly, there is a bit of a performance penalty vs.
native iron.  But, it could simplify things by allowing
fewer physical hosts and shifting the burden to a bigger
VM store (just more disk space -- which you'd already have
for physical hosts!)

What's the advantage unless you're doing PC/mobile software development?
Python already supports its own virtual environments, and running a Windows VM isn't much fun on a laptop..maybe on a desktop/server with lots of RAM.