on 15:37 Thu 03 Mar, Lamar Owen (lowen@pari.edu) 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
I think I addressed that reality. For some needs, you need to be on bare metal, though whether this is accomplished via multi-booting or multiple systems (if you're doing professional music editing, presumably you can justify a dedicated system to that task).
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.
What surprises me is that there aren't more systems available which provide separate bare-metal computing environments within a single enclosure, perhaps with some form of shared storage, perhaps just integrated networking, to provide this sort of need. We see this in server space (blade and multi-system enclosures) but rarely if ever in consumer space.
Otherwise, the solution would be to run the system with the low-latency requirements as the host.