On Monday 16 April 2007 22:16:00 Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > 5) A virtual machine such as VMware. You will need a decent computer, > enough memory, etc., but the requirements are modest by today's > standards. I run Linux on a T43 Thinkpad and there are some things > (being nice to co-workers mainly) that I need to do in Windows, so > I have an XP in a VMware Player, allocated 368MB of RAM out of the > total GB to it, and it works just fine. Depending on what kernel > work you will be doing, you may need to run Windows on real HW and > Linux in a VM, which may be less than absolutely perfect (but > probably decent) if you spend the vast majority of your time in the > Linux desktop. > > The above assumes that we are talking about desktop computers and you > will be working at your desk.
There are 2 workplaces i am looking at. At work i am getting 1 computer with who knows what on it. 99% it is windows. It would be stupid to develop drivers on your main OS, thus i am guessing vmware would be the other solution there anyway, so i will also run linux on a separate vmware session or run cygwin solutions. However, i got the feeling it won't play nice if i have 1 main OS + 2 guests at the same time. As a kernel developer, however, i may get a new computer with those new CPUs that can handle VT. Do you think they will be able to handle 2 guests? The other place is at home which is here i am referring to the hw solution. Here the host os will obviously remain Linux and thus, the virtualized OS would be windows. I guess VMWARE here too? What about XEN? I hear that there are CPUs which are better at virtualization , what should i purchase? currently my computer won't be able to handle another OS since it is p1.6. -- Regards, Tzahi. -- Tzahi Fadida Blog: http://tzahi.blogsite.org | Home Site: http://tzahi.webhop.info WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
