George Yanos wrote:
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.
Umm. I was being ironic. All multitasking systems have context
switch overhead, even when there is some extra hardware
support. Switching OS would be even higher overhead.
Mike
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