Virtual Machine - Software Tester's boon

Testing x86 based Servers on VM has significant advantages over testing on Physical machines (For Software Test Teams). Some of them are

1. Server consolidation
• Saves Money as we don’t need as many physical boxes
• smaller foot print in the lab (space / Power / cables / cooling)
• Server management cost is reduced as the number of physical boxes reduced
  
2. Keyboard / Video / Mouse comes in at no extra cost
3. Power ON/OFF from remote machine comes with no extra cost
4. CD can be managed as file instead of physical media
• No need for physical CD
• No need to burn CD
• No need to insert the CD (Physical presence)
• No Need to take out the CD (Physical presence)