On 09/29/2011 03:51 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > Any further tips pointers on this? There seem to be a lot of virtual > machine options nowadays... > Whatever hypervisor you like, it doesn't mater much. If you do Desktop development, then Virtualbox is quite convenient (especially mouse pointer handling), but if you do server oriented things, then Xen or KVM might be good too. All of these have a kind of snapshot functionality. Thomas