On 11/7/07, michael nt milne <michael.milne@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone tried this or had any experience with this? We're using Enfold Server and for staging and development purposes instead of using separate machines we're thinking of setting up a 'virtual machines' on the same server. There appear to be many benefits. However knowing that Zope/Plone are RAM instensive this could be an issue.
There is no issue in running Zope in Windows _or_ running Zope inside a VM. It does need the same amount of RAM as running it not inside a VM. Whether that counts as "RAM intensive" or not depends on what you do with it and whether you have a comparison to another application. VMs tend to have a bit lower performance per MHz, so if you can live with that (and have the RAM to feed the VM) go ahead. You can later decide to put it on a dedicated machine anyway. --knitti