Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with building (was Re: 2018.x requiring OSG 3.4)

[Richard H. <rj...@za...>]

> Over the past year or two I have made increasing use of a tool called 
> "virtual box".  I can setup a machine with the exact distro, the exact 
> vintage, the exact libs, the exact modifications that I

+1 for VirtualBox.

I make extensive use of VirtualBox; for both Windows and Linux. One of 
the features that is superb is the ability to take a snapshot of a 
virtual machine, reconfigure it, etc and then if it all goes wrong you 
can restore the snapshot and get back to what it was previous. You can 
also take a virtual machine and make a virtual appliance - which can 
then be restored into a virtual machine. This is handy as it is 
effectively a full backup. I've got about 12 virtual appliances, most 
versions of Windows since XP, many Linux distros, site saves from 
customer sites that may need fault finding or supporting.

When developing unix stuff I'd often find that I would end up with a 
load of terminals ssh'd into various VM's; sometimes using NFS.

So yes, virtualbox is a fantastic and essential part of a developer's 
toolbox