On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:46 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <
zn...@znmeb.net> wrote:
> Speaking of Windows, I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade my
> laptop from Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit to Windows 8 Pro. If I'm
> reading the web correctly, Windows 8 Pro includes something called
> 'Client Hyper-V', which may be capable of running a minimal Redis
> appliance built on any recent Linux "JEOS" base. I'm going to be
> testing out my Computational Journalism Publishers Workbench with
> Windows 8 Pro Client Hyper-V in the near future and it has Redis 2.6
> installed from source. I'm planning to post about this on the Github
> site as soon as I start getting some results / gotchas coming forth.
Aside from some rather annoying issues with USB mice and bridging a
Hyper-V guest to a wireless network adapter that I still need to
troubleshoot/research, I have Fedora 18 Beta and openSUSE 12.2 guests
functioning in a Hyper-V virtual machine, and I'm sure Linux Mint /
Ubuntu and RHEL/CentOS will work as well.
However, I also have VMware Workstation 9 and VirtualBox 4.2.4 on the
same machine. Both are stable, mature and much better at virtualizing
a *desktop* than Hyper-V is at present. So at this point I'm guessing
my Hyper-V exercises will be limited to setting up a Redis-only guest
tied to an internal network, most likely with openSUSE 32-bit Linux as
the OS. The upside of that is that on my 8 GB machine, Hyper-V offers
me almost 6 GB for guest RAM, while both VMware and VirtualBox
recommend you use only half of your RAM for guests.