On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Jonathan Nilsson <jnilsson at uci.edu> wrote: >> >> > Yeah, I know, but they (and I) want my environment to match their >> > production deployment, and that will not be using a VM. >> > > do they all run with dual-booting Windows/CentOS systems? is their > environment filled with laptops running CentOS? This is a new system, but yes, it will be deployed on laptops running CentOS. > If you can tell the difference from inside the environment, you did >> something wrong. >> > > well, a few differences: if you run a VM you won't be needing to load any > custom hardware drivers (especially wifi, just use bridged/shared > networking). also you won't get any of the hardware keys on the laptop to > work within the virtual machine. and i'm not sure what happens if you close > the laptop - windows may not be able to hibernate/suspend if the VM is > running. > > but still, i'd advocate going the virtual machine route. I didn't come here to debate VM's. I was just looking for someone to say "Yeah, I used the CentOS partitioning it and it worked like a charm" or "I used it and it was a disaster."