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Re: Running Subversion on a Windows VM

From: John Waycott <javajohn_at_cox.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:14:50 -0700

On Jul 2, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Bob Archer wrote:

>>
>> If you don't really NEED to run Subversion in a VM box (i.e. you have
>> Subversion as a part of your own project and run it in sandboxed
>> environment)
>> - you would be better off with native solution. Less segments in
>> chain
>> - lower
>> chance for system failure.
>
> VM's are becoming very popular. IT departments are buying very
> powerful servers these days and they don't want to dedicate it to
> one task that takes 3% of the CPU... but they do want to sandbox
> stuff to avoid conflicts as much as possible.
>
> That said... if the OP is looking for a low overhead solution to
> create a VM that only is for subversion, then I would say something
> like Debian Linux server will work just as well (with 0 license
> fees), if not better. Of course, if you don't have any *Nix admins
> on staff a Win server in a VM should work just fine.
>
Another advantage of a good VM setup is the high availability it
provides. We're running Citrix XenServer on two servers. SVN is in a
VM. An IT admin can easily move the VM from one server to another
without anyone noticing. It means that should there be a need to
shutdown the server we can do it without shutting down SVN. This is
important in globally distributed organizations like ours because
developers access Subversion 24 hours/day.

-- John

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