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echo: bbs_carnival
to: Kurt Weiske
from: Mark Hofmann
date: 2012-08-26 10:41:20
subject: Re: silly os/2 question

KW> I like being able to fire up a test VM alongside the BBS VM and work on
KW> them
KW> side by side without hauling out another monitor, plug, etc. I still
KW> haven't
KW> hit a wall with 8 GB of RAM in my desktop box and have another 8 ready to
KW> go
KW> in.
KW> 
KW> Since I work all day, the system's idle most of the time, freeing up all
KW> of the
KW> cycles for the BBS. When I'm working on it, no one can tell from the BBS
KW> side.

Snapshots are also very cool.  

If you are making big changes to the BBS setup, take a fast snapshot first.
 If things go south, just restore the snapshot and you are back in minutes.

- Mark

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