I am in the process of running some benchmark tests on a variety of RDBMSes, and I am testing three different client operating systems.
Would it be terrible to partition the HDD and install Ubuntu, Windows 7 and Solaris 10? If I do not do this, I will likely have to re-install the O.S numerous times due to changes in the database server OS as well. The same question goes for the server; would it drastically affect the performance to install three server OSes on one server?