On Fri, 20 May 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
Henk Stokhorst wrote:
Virtualization means you can boot up multiple Operating Systems simultaneous. So you can run OpenBSD, some Linux distributions and an illegal copy of Windows from the past on your machine without any of them interfering with the other. Unfortunatly if you run an instance of Prime95 on all these systems, the total throughput will be same as when you run only one instance.
You mean I don't get to use all those virtual cycles?
Actually a good bit less useful work than one instance.
You have three copies of the program occupying ram, as well as three operating systems, so all of them will be making do with less ram.
A healthy fraction of the cpu cycles will be spent on keeping track of who is who and whose turn it is to run now and who needs to be protected from who(m?).
80% of the possible would be doing rather well. --
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