On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:45 PM, <aurfalien at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ That's exaclty what I was getting at :) Although it's not there yet, I'm sure we'll get there sooner than expected -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532