On Mar 3, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 01:20:06 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
Compare against CIFS/Samba shares or NFS exports bewteen booted host/guests. You get native filesystem support (under the host/ guest as relevant), and mappings via CIFS/Samba and/or NFS/NIS+.
The win is still virtualization.
There are situations where dual-booting is a necessary thing to do; one of those is low-latency professional audio where accurate timekeeping is required; basically anything that needs the -rt preemptive kernel patches. I actually have need of this, from multiple OS's, and while I've tried the 'run it in VMware' thing with Windows and professional audio applications the results were not satisfactory.
Agreed.
Even with high end 3D were OpenGL is a must.
Even Photoshop CS5 takes advantage of graphic acceleration.
I look to virtualization for ;
isolation quick app access for specific guest OS. great fault tolerance testing theories, deployments lower over all hardware cost in aggregate
- aurf