Pro's and Con's of a Virtual Machine installation

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Before attempting to debug/install Deki Wiki, consider whether a VM installation is not a better option. Roughly ?? % of all running installations are VM installations.

Item	Installation from Source	Virtual Machine Installation
Hardware Requirements	About 20% less hardware intensive	Consider the fact that most servers' resources are very much under-utilised. Also that a relatively cheap Pentium 4 with 512MB Ram running Linux, will have ample power as a dedicated Deki Wiki host.
Software costs	Free, except if you choose Windows instead of Linux.	VMware player/server is free for Windows and Linux. VMware Fusion is not-free for OS X.
Expertise required to setup	High	Low
Expertise required to modify	Same	Same
Expertise required to maintain	Moderate	Low (automatic updates via updateWiki.sh)
MindTouch support offered	Basic & Gold	Basic & Silver