Times change, emulators come and go, but PE building, and testing, and building, and testing, continues. Back in the day I started with ubcd/ubcd4win and a CD/RW bootstrapping from a 3.5 floppy loaded with a handful of drivers and bart's amazing modboot framework. Then Virtual PC was released free and rocked my world. Now years later USB and network booting is the new norm and your lucky to find a CD drive in a modern computer. I've been a VMware user for 15 years or so (I deal almost exclusively with ESXi/vSphere in my enterprise) so vmware is my goto emulator for testing my projects & builds and at least 75%+ of my completed builds are used via PXE booting on a corporate LAN (the other 25% is the keychain USB build I keep around for those times when a friend/relative/etc bribes me into helping them fix/devirus their personal PC). Which got me to wondering, what are the rest of the Oven Chefs using these days and how has your testing cycle changed over the years? Feel free to explain your preferences and if/how they have changed with the times.
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