Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:46:20 -0300, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
wrote:
I agree with John. It is better to have a robust system (Gentoo) and
run the bad one (Windows) on user space (via VMWare) so it can't do
much damage.
That's how I do it and it works well. I very rarely use VMWare for
Windows, mainly for testing on different Linux distros. It runs virtually
as fast as native hardware, apart from a slight reduction in disk speed
from the virtual disks.
VMWare 5 is very nice, and runs much better on amd64 than the 4.x series.
I've done this both ways with Workstation 4.5. Using Windows as the
host OS is a good choice if you want every single piece of hardware to
"just work". I never had a problem with speed (only with the clock, as
someone else mentioned), except for compiling. The virtual machine
memory bandwidth seems to be significantly reduced compared to native,
by maybe as much as 50%, which made compiling take quite a bit longer.
Maybe this is improved in WS5, although I can't really say, because now
I run the "right way" (TM).
One possibility is to setup the system as a dual-boot system, and give
yourself the choice of running Gentoo from within VMWare or natively.
-Richard
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