In case it hasn’t become clear, I’m on the virtualization bandwagon. At least when it comes to my desktop. In terms of server based stuff, no clue.

Back in my mks days, we used removable harddrive chassis to mimick virtualization. So my desktop had a removable drive as it’s primary drive. Depending on what was happening I’d have three or four physical drives in my office. My two core environments were a Red Hat drive and a Windows 2000 drive. There’d be a few extras depending on the projects at the time. Anytime I wanted a new environment, get a clean drive, plug it in and install the OS.

Looking back at it now this was just a virtualization hack. It was a lot better than dual boots which were clumsy. This setup was a complete pain if you didn’t have network file storage available as you could only have one drive active at a time. Obviously you’d also be stuck booting and rebooting your machine all day long.

Time to move on……

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