[browsershots-factories] VMWare for Windows Factories

[Rajagopal V]

Hi Marcin,
Thanks for the reply.

On 2/26/07, Marcin Kr=F3l <hawk at limanowa.net> wrote:
>
> > Can I use VMWare to load separate Windows
> > images on each of the VMware and then run single instances of
> > shotfactory on those ?
>
> Of course you can. But keep in mind that each running virtual machine
> will eat memory. Lets say you'll give 256 MBs for each VM and you have 4
> VMs. So your PC must have more than 1 gig of RAM to run them all at same
> time. Also windows browser will eat lots of both RAM and CPU time. To
> make it clear: it will hog your PC totally so probably you'll not even
> be able to move mouse cursor :)


We are planning to get a hardware expandable upto 6GB of RAM and also
planning to use this dedicated for taking screenshots as we have a lot of
pages to test. So AFAICT this will be a dedicated machine.


> And if you were planning not to keep all VMs running but to run them
> when screenshot request arrives, then I'm sorry - its not possible to do
> it.


No, it would all be running at the same time.

Thanks
Raja
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