Using virtualization in testing and development environments

Date: Jun 18, 2009

Virtualization can make working in testing and development environments much easier -- if you design these environments properly.

In this TechTalk video, virtualization expert Andrew Kutz reviews the best practices for using virtualization to create testing and development environments. Learn which hypervisors are best for test and dev and find out how to test 64-bit operating systems on the leading hypervisors.

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