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Re:Dell XPS 13 Review on Friday February 20, 2015 @06:04AM (#9079921)
I'm genuinely interested in why are you running 10 to 20 VMs at once. I come from a MS environment and I don't see any use cases in my daily work where this would make sense.
Re:Ask HN: Why do you run multiple VM's? on Friday February 20, 2015 @06:01AM (#9079911)
Sure, I understand that, but a lot of people are talking about running multiple headless VM's at once and I can't really see any use cases outside of QC/QA environments. Even for people working on multiple projects at once (for multiple clients) it sounds like there is no real reason to run more than 2 at once (one for tools, the other for the server environment).

Ask HN: Why do you run multiple VM's?

Hey everyone!I'm a developer working mostly on MS technologies so I don't really use VM's. I've been reading HN for quite some time and every time there's a development thread (or the latest Dell XPS13 and its 8GB RAM thread) a lot of developers pop-up saying that they "constantly" run n VM's (n > 1).Can you please explain to me, what are some cases that this makes sense (please don't write...

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