[CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

Thu Mar 3 21:04:42 UTC 2011
Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at SoftDux.com>

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


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