on 15:37 Thu 03 Mar, Lamar Owen (lowen at 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. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist / | Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist | When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited | Go to Krell!