On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 06:23:55PM +0000, Ian Malone wrote: > On 6 January 2016 at 17:01, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 13:30 +0000, Ian Malone wrote: > >> Is there any less drastic approach? > > > > You don't really explain your use case. I find it's enough to run the > > occasional Windows session in a VM, but if you depend on high- > > performance 3D graphics (e.g. for gaming) that may not be enough. For > > most everything else it's fine. > > > > This is probably better now than it was before, but with a two core > system and not a massive amount of RAM it seems a better use to dual > boot on the laptop (and on my desktop I dual boot because that's > exactly what I use windows for). Allowing access to the shared > partition (music and other data) means I can get at that from both > sides of a dual boot, I can install windows programs there if > necessary to avoid having a large chunk of space stuck in a c:\ > partition or VM image. That would be a bit harder from a VM (if > possible at all, not sure filesystem passthrough will work for a > windows client, samba is awful). Also, my windows license is a > hardware one, not for VM. I can only see the windows in a vm helping > in this situation if there's a neat way to give it fairly transparent > access to a filesystem on the host machine.
To the latter point, I run Windows 8.1 as a VirtualBox VM under F22. The space for all my VM's is in a single LV with a ext4 filesystem. It can be resized as needed. I don't know about other virtual environments, but under VBox, access to the Linux data is simple, called shared folders. Normally I make my F22 home dir available as a share (e: drive). This is one directory tree on an ext4 fs in an LV. To try other combos today I shared /usr/local, the root of an ext4 fs again in an LV. I also shared /tmp, a memory based tempfs. Again, a simple "fill out a gui form of 5 items". Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie jo...@jgcomp.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
