On Saturday 03 March 2007 13:40, jdd wrote: > Anders Johansson wrote: > > Basically by trying and testing. I normally use vmware myself, but > > I have a license for it from work. It is a bit pricey > > there is a free vmware server for personal use. The drawback is a > great loss of performance that makes it bad for games :-))
The loss primarily comes in the area of graphics. They emulate a pretty low-end graphics adaptor and there's certainly no 3D support in that emulated graphics adaptor. Depending on how you configure your virtual machine, disk I/O incurs varying amounts of overhead. I use physical drives, so the overhead is quite low. Using virtual drives (where the emluated drive is backed by a host system file) yields greater overhead and somewhat less performance. But the rest, basic program execution, is limited only by the fact that you're sharing your CPU (and RAM) resources. But that's true even when there's only one OS running. > jdd Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
