On 18/4/2013 5:11 μμ, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > I*strongly* second that. In real, professional work environments, you've > got developers, testers, and production, on*separate* boxes; if you're > short on hardware and cash, a VM on the dev box is the way to go. To expand on this correct advice: You can use CloneZilla or mondorescue to clone your production system to a test VM; then experiment there as much you like. :-) N