That’s what I actually had in mind: creating a local Sandbox in VMware for testing GeoServer in conjunction with other FOSS GIS software. As it turned out, it’s not necessary to set such a system up by myself. Ricardo Pinho did it already and made a VMware image already available:
GISVM is intended to be a full-feature GIS Workstation based exclusively on free GIS software: PostgreSQL, PostGIS, GeoServer, Mapserver, FWTools, QGIS/GRASS, gvSIG, uDIG and Kosmo, on Ubuntu Desktop.
Great work! Exactly what I wanted. It’s a huge time saver. GISVM gives you a feel what FOSS GIS software can do for you, without going through any installation and configuration hassles.
GISVM works well as sandbox in VMware Fusion (aff link) here on the MacBook (1 processor and 512MB RAM enabled) , although it asked for upgrading the image file and installing VMware Tools for better performance.
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