On Wednesday 19 December 2007 14:25, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote: > Hi ! > > > I have a tough choice. Client have an Intel-based Quad-Core PC with > SuSE 10.3, and time to time (~1 - 1.5 hours day) needs Win XP with > Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamveawer and some weird video editing > programs. He does not want to reboot he;s workstation in "clean" > WinXP-only mode.
You don't say anything about RAM, but that's an important parameter in virtualization performance. Given the applications your client wants to run, I'd specify a minimum of 4 GB of RAM. > The obvious cantenders for virtualization are: VMware, VirtualBox and > Xen (KVM/QEMU does not suitable because it lacks guest OS video > acceleration). Can Xen handle OS-heterogenous virtualization? I thought the guest had to be Linux, as well. Also, my understanding, admittedly limited, is that none of the VMs virtualize a 3D graphics adaptor. They usually do some moldy old thing like an S3 from 1999. > The question is - which of these virtualization solutions will offer > best performance, especially in terms of graphic/video screen redraw, > sound latency, and 3D graphic ? My experience does not extend beyond VMware 5.5 running Windows XP. The only 3D software I ever use is DeLorme's topo mapping program, and the 3D performance is such that you don't really want to use it in its 3D terrain visualization mode. (The physical graphics card is an ATI Radeon 9600 / RV350 AR card manufactured by ABIT.) > Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s). Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
