Visual Studio 2010 on a virtual machine

Are there recommendations on installation and inside a virtual machine by using Visual Studio 2010?

I like to keep the real development projects and files on a real disk.

I would like to set up an isolated development environment... is it a good idea?

VS runs at a decent speed?

Minimum requirements of the host and client?

Thank you

Hello

I'm sure that other sounds here, but yes it will work well in a virtual machine.

The proposed configuration should work, you can use the shared folders feature, or use a network share.

It was reported that network share approach gives better results in terms of performance.

It should work at a decent speed. I have done software development on virtual machines for several years now and do not want to go back to physics for this as there are so many benefits.

Requirements minimum host/guest depend on a bit of your needs. Any recent material would do, I would say a minimum of 4 GB of memory to the host is defensible, but you could get it to work with less, 2 GB is not really enough, 3 GB would work. More memory is definitely better, a platform with a dual core (or better) processor 8 GB and a nice card ATI/NVIDIA (not too old models) would be nice. Yet once, it will probably work with low end graphics card, but if you can get reasonable, you will not regret.

Using 8 GB at the host level, means pretty much go for a 64-bit OS host.

Hope this helps,

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