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

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