#XAMPP INSTALL ON D DRIVE MAC OS#
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If you format your physical USB disk with FAT32 and use VMware Player as your hypervisor, you will be able to start and run your virtual machines on any host computer that runs VMware Player (or Workstation/Fusion), regardless of whether the physical computer is running Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X.

You can configure each virtual machine for either host-only networking (if your development sites should be accessible only locally) or bridged networking (if you want them to be accessible on your local area network).

#XAMPP INSTALL ON D DRIVE FREE#

You have many options for your hypervisor, but the simplest free virtualization platforms are VMware Player and Oracle VirtualBox. I would suggest creating two virtual machines, one running Linux (for LAMP) and one running Windows (for WAMP). The answer is yes, you can, but the only sensible way to do this is with virtualization. You have asked if it is feasible to run WAMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP running on Windows) and LAMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP running on Linux) on the same SSD.

I'm no expert, so if this is just plain old stupid, please don't hesitate to let me know. But I was thinking it would be cool if it could be done. My question is, has anyone ever successfully run both WAMP and LAMP from the same SSD (formatted to NTFS)? I'm sure there are lots of barriers to this happening, like local file system, OS libraries, dependencies, etc. I will keep trying to resolve this, but in the meantime. I went to work installing and trying to set up a LAMP server and, besides from XAMPP 64-bit compatibility out of the box, I'm seeing other issues with getting this Linux server running. I have several Ubuntu workstations and servers and I like Linux, so I thought his was a great opportunity to transition. Recently, however, one of my Windows machines' hard drive went down and instead of going back to Windows in this case, I went with Ububntu 12.04. I was working with three Windows machines and I could simply hook up the drive, launch my XAMPP server and away I went, developing websites: using Dreamweaver, Komodo, Notepad++, Eclipse, etc. So I bought a USB 3.0 enclosure and put a solid state drive in there and it's pretty darn fast, which is good. This was OK, but if the system changed for some reason, eg, new OS install, it was a pain. Historically, I created separate developing environments to use for each machine. The reason I do this is because I work on a few different computers. I have an solid state drive that I develop websites on.

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