IdP & SP testing Environment (VMware)

[Peter Schober]

* Peter Schober <peter.schober at univie.ac.at> [2013-05-28 00:29]:
> * Gilles Badouet <badouetg at uni.coventry.ac.uk> [2013-05-27 22:33]:
> > What issues will I face if I set up an IdP and SP testing environment through VMware workstations.
> > I would like to do so by deploying the SP on a virtualized Windows
> > Server 2008 and the IdP on a virtualized Windows 7.
> > 
> > Any advices?
> 
> The presence (or absence) of a hypervisor do not factor into the
> working of the software, generally.

Given the generally cautious negative comments wrt virtualized setups
let me add that Univie runs pretty much its entire fleet of servers in
this virtualization environment (with fewer and fewer exceptions),
without any isses as far as I'm aware.

The group I was in alone was in charge of several hundred
servers, from Oracle DBs, LDAP, Java servlet containers, and certainly
our Shibbolth IdPs and an ever growing number of SPs.

So while there certainly are issues in running any kind of
infrastructure of that size none of it really is specific to
Shibboleth (neither the IdP not the SP).
-peter