How come nobody's mentioned running multiple VMs on a desktop?
I really do this for production work - VMWare Workstation and VirtualBox. On Linux and on Windows hosts. It sorta fits the workflow that this article is talking about. When you want to work on project XYZ then switch to the appropriate VM - either windowed or full-screen. Shared folders and clipboards makes this pretty seamless.
There are so many benefits to encapsulating particular environments in a "container" or VM that they don't really need listing. But they include isolation, snapshots, pausing/stopping the whole environment, granular allocation of resources, etc.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
