Am 23.11.2010 22:16, schrieb Mark Knecht: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I consider buying a i5-661 on a DQ57TM board --- >> And I still haven't done it ;-) > That's quite a wait! ;-)
Yeah, you know --- financial crisis and stuff :-) > Yes, I use vmware-player and VirtualBox-OSE. I built my Player VM's > using Workstation on a 1 month license and have used Player (from the > vmware-workstation ebuild in the Pentoo library) for the last year. > They work great. ok > I use VirtualBox-OSE to run Microsoft Home Server. That works great also. uh, who needs *that* ? on this mailing-list? ;-) >> I only recently switched to the Player here ... and I was positively >> surprised. > > I'm on my i980x Gentoo machine and am running 3 VM's at the moment all > in Player. It works well. > > I actually haven't done much with VMWare-Player on the i5-661 mostly > because the machine runs Windows most of the time right now. > > > i think if I was going to use prebuild VMs then I'd likely go with > VMWare-Player because I have more history with it. If I was going to > do new installations then I'd work on VirtualBox. When I started with virtual stuff vmware-server was(/seemed?) more powerful than -player ... and I stayed with it for quite some time without ever re-checking features. Player now is easier to use with current kernels and vmware-modules and does also remove some issues I had with vmware-server. So: OK .. player! Right now my vmware-bases VMs run fine with player. But this is virtualization-talk vs. cpu-talk (=subject of thread) - I still consider getting a core-i5 or -i7 "for christmas" :-) It won't get me more spare time, just quicker compile-times ;-) S
