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