Jerry Feldman wrote: > I guess a couple of more things is what you want to use virtualization > for. On my laptop it is almost purely for demo purposes, although I > initially set it up to run some things that could not be done under > Linux, even through WINE. Initially, I needed RealPlayer for my wife, > but RealPlayer Superpass needs Active X and Windows explorer. While > Windows explorer works ok under WINE and CrossoverOffice, RealPlayer 10 > does not run under WINE. Initially I ran VMWare Server, but its > performance was lacking, and later I used Virtualbox where the > performance was much better. While I can cite some specific cases where > virtualization improved performance (or more specifically througput), > you are going to take a bit of performance hit. > > At home I use KVM/QEMU to run both Windows 7 and Windows XP. My primary > need is to run Citrix which has some issue natively under fedora 11. > Additionally, currently I'm not getting any sound under the guest OS, > but I used to get sound on XP, and I think it is more configurational, > and I just have not yet fixed it because it is not important. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > One area where virtualization, especially virtual Windows machines is a pain is licensing. Try reading Microsoft's licenses and how they apply to virtual machines. As best as I could tell you need to use their special volume licensed software to be compliant. IANAL so your mileage will vary.
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