It depends on how much resources do you need, but on my 4GB MacBook I use VMWare Fusion with a few 384MB Ubuntu Server. It's not EC2 but it's pretty close, it's fast, free and can delete/clone easily.
Andy
· 9 months ago
Why do you need all these virtual machines for development? Why not just start all your servers on the same computer without VMs? It sounds like your working around a software installation problem.
Where I work we keep a single production machine image that basically never changes. All code is statically linked into a self-contained executable and deployed to production machines. And then you can just run all your servers on a single machine -- no VMs necessary.
ropiku
· 9 months ago
You need them when you work with software that interacts with the cloud. Like programatically configuring servers, or the kind of auto-scaling and replication that Heroku does.
justindz
· 9 months ago
Have you looked at EUCALYPTUS (I know...) in Ubuntu 9.04 server yet? It's actually supposed to be able to locally mimic the EC2 API. Penny for your thoughts.
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Where I work we keep a single production machine image that basically never changes. All code is statically linked into a self-contained executable and deployed to production machines. And then you can just run all your servers on a single machine -- no VMs necessary.