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At the MSDN site, it states:
“… install Team Foundation Build on a computer that is dedicated to running builds.”
OK, I got that. But my manager didn’t, and I wasn’t able to convince him.
This way, I aske the SO community to help me convince him of the need to use a dedicated computer to run builds.
Building is a CPU intensive process. The idea of a build server is that it sits there and builds after every checkin, to make sure nothing broke. If you put that on a computer with other resources, it’s going to slow down everything else. Even if you virtualized it, it’s probably going to be a problem.
The other thing is that you want a “clean” OS install so that other programs don’t contaminate the computer by adding dependencies that client computers might not have.
If you only used it for nightly builds, I would think you’d be OK running a virtual machine to do it.