<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><br class=""><div><div class="">On 27 May 2013, at 21:32, Gilles Badouet <<a href="mailto:badouetg@uni.coventry.ac.uk">badouetg@uni.coventry.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; " class="">What issues will I face if I set up an IdP and SP testing environment through VMware workstations. </div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; " class="">I would like to do so by deploying the SP on a virtualized Windows Server 2008 and the IdP on a virtualized Windows 7.</div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>For testing purposes, probably the most common stumbling block is clock synchronisation. Depending on host OS, guest OS and VMware product, this can be either no problem at all or a complete pain. Some refs:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/276965/how-to-keep-a-vmware-vms-clock-in-sync">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/276965/how-to-keep-a-vmware-vms-clock-in-sync</a></div><div><br></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Timekeeping-In-VirtualMachines.pdf">http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Timekeeping-In-VirtualMachines.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>I think most people have historically found Linux to be the most likely to give problems, though.<br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true">
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