I have just had my vmware workstation driven to a crawl by VM's running. but thats my general usage on top of that and I'm pretty heavy haded on my machines resources or spoiled both fit. and i have felt similar performance impacts when doing the same thing under Linux with vmware server on the same hardware On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > Not to defend windows here but I have no issues with VM on windows. > Mind you I use ESXi for all serious work related stuff now days but I > use Server2 on my windows desktop with no issues. The only > "performance" hit is that you need to pay attention to windows disk > and memory optimization, which is something you don't need to worry > about in Linux. But that is just a windows sucks issue not a VM under > windows sucks issue. > > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: >> Eric Shubert wrote: >>> >>> Stephen wrote: >>>> >>>> What i personally envision for my desires is a dual boot system that >>>> can run the non-active system in VM. so if i boot windows i can run my >>>> Linux install in vm, or if o boot Linux i can run windows in VM. >>> >>> That would be possible if your Linux and Win are on their own drives. Raw >>> Devices works with raw drives, but I'm not sure about raw partitions (I have >>> a hunch raw paritions might be possible, but I haven't seen anyone claiming >>> to have done it yet). You would need a 3rd drive to run the host OS from, >>> possibly a USB drive. Someone on the list here was doing something along >>> these lines fairly recently. >>> >>>> It can be done i think but i haven't had it work out well yet... (that >>>> whole flipping hardware about) >> >> This part just hit home. Windows will have a problem switching >> configurations due to hardware differences. I don't know of a way around >> that. Linux shouldn't have much of a problem with this though. >> >>>> And ext and reiser fs's handle the weird disk load needed for OS/VM >>>> allot better and Linux as a whole doesn't dink with the disk anywhere >>>> near as much as windows. so if windows is your host this is my >>>> personal suggestion if you have the budget for it. Ideally i would >>>> love to se wine take such a hold that i can drop windows entirely, but >>>> i think that is unlikely to happen. MS is developing their back-end >>>> strongly and its to much for the wine team to really stay on top of >>>> unless some of those API's are open sourced. but they may prove me >>>> wrong yet. >>> >>> I'm a little surprised that anyone would choose any Win OS as a VM host. >>> I'm not surprised that VMs on Windoze have performance issues. >>> >> >> >> -- >> -Eric 'shubes' >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss