[Mailman-Developers] VM for Mailman development

Barry Warsaw barry at list.org
Tue Mar 20 04:12:03 CET 2012


On Mar 19, 2012, at 06:17 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:

>I'm currently thinking about VirtualBox vs. dual boot. I'm used to
>working with Cygwin command windows on my Windows desktop. There are
>various issues with Cygwin, both itself and WRT MM 3, so I need to move
>away from that. VirtualBox would allow me to continue to work in a
>hybrid environment with some Windows applications and some Unix like
>applications running together, but dual boot might avoid potential
>hardware interface issues and would motivate me to move completely away
>from Windows (although I would probably still need access to Windows to
>diagnose user problems with the web site I admin).

From a technical standpoint, you can run Windows in a virtual machine hosted
on Linux. :)

-Barry


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