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From: Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
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Subject: Re: All VM-based development
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 01:10:22 -0700
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On 1/9/2025 9:54 PM, Sergey Kubushyn wrote:
> Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> 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!)
> 
> Ever tried to run Altium Designer PCB Editor in a VM?
> 
> Please let us know when you succeed and explain how you did it.

What problems are you having?  Under which VM environment?