Bill Arnold wrote: > Hi Leland, > > Gaming may be an exception because I understand some such programs > bypass the OS and API's and go directly to the hardware (I guess that's > what you're talking about) So fare as most motherboards, video card, network card, sound cards, etc, are concerned, all the programming instructions are already built into the hardware, so the hardware is OS agnostic and of itself has everything need to do what it was designed to do. However, there must be a layer between the OS and the hardware where the OS and application can communicate with the hardware via translated instruction sets, thus the device driver. For OS(s) that do not support a particular item of hardware, it is possible for someone to write their own device driver, but this is usually to time consuming and difficult, and the device drivers are usually of a higher quality if written by the manufacturer of the hardware. Here more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_driver > , but as a Big General Rule, computer > performance 'degradation' is a function of physical I/O with devices, > usually managed by the OS and device drivers, and from this standpoint > if enough RAM is installed to keep 'x' number of OS's and 'y' number of > applications in memory, there should be little, if any, difference > between a standalone OS machine and a VM machine. > > > Bill > > > > >> Yes, that had occurred to me. A VM is not the best choice on >> which to >> run games. Windows is still ahead of Linux at this point as a gaming >> OS; although, I haven't seen any benchmark/comparison. It is my >> understanding that the windows NVIDIA driver is more mature for SLI, >> etc, than is the Linux NVIDIA driver, and the windows (OS) will yield >> more FPS, (eg Frames per Second) and greater SLI functionality under >> windows than the Linux OS with a NVIDIA driver. >> >> I would rather host VM(s) under the Linux OS and have all my >> web stuff >> under the safer Linux OS, (eg web browser, email clients, >> etc), and only >> run applications that are not available under Linux/Unix in a >> Windows VM >> guest, but if I were a gamer, I would reverse it and host the guest >> OS(s) on Windows, so I could run games natively. >> >> Regards, >> >> LelandJ >> > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
