I did something similar with a Ultra 40, which would be similar to the 24 (2 CPU x 2 Core on the 40 vs. 1 CPU x 4 Core on the 24). I was impressed with the speed at which XP installed in VirtualBox, probably the fastest XP install I've ever done.
The Host OS was SXDE. The Virtual Display performance wasn't incredible, I definitely wouldn't want to run animations or movies inside it, but it was definitely adequate for "Office Productivity" type applications. --joe Andrew Watkins wrote: > I am getting a little confused with all the different virtualization software > out there, but I that is a different question for a different day > > I got my hands on a Sun Ultra 24 Quad CPU machine and I thought I would give > the above a go, but was a little disappointed with the performance of running > MS Windows as a guest. I have not yet compared xVM and VirtualBox since still > having problems with the networking side of VirtualBox, but my gut feeling is > that there may not be a lot in it! > > Has any one obtained real performance data for running Windows? My initial > feelings is that in the Single CPU (Desktop) area I will not get very good > performance, since the windows guest will only run on a single thread/core. > > Any thoughts > > Andrew > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
