On Wednesday 27 June 2007 04:24, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
Kai Ponte wrote: [...]
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?? What can't I do? I run office 2007 (with the Excel that no longer limits me to 65500 rows), Visual Studio, Visio and my internal applications. All seem to work without a decrease in speed when compared to my P-IV 3.4 GHz machine sitting right next to the laptop.
So the performance is ok, but either you do not need more performance than vmware provides or you will get more performance when you run your windows "natively" on your hardware. To find out, try some windows games. Furthermore you cannot do isdn connections, usb is said to be lousy/slowly, 3D Acceleration is not useable and more. Again, vmware is great and you can work with it all day long, but it surely lacks something against running windows natively.
To be honest, I think if you look at the VMware site, their emphasis (and, apparently, the bulk of their considerable revenue) is on "enterprise" applications—i.e., server virtualization in a large data center environment (*). Interactive / workstation use is not, I don't think, their primary target. They do a pretty good job of it, and overhead is not high, but as you point out with your point about games, they don't emulate high-end graphics hardware. I think it's just not a priority for their primary business cases. I think for a large chunk of workstation users (including VMware Workstation and Server) running Windows as a guest under a Linux host, the point is that we cannot make do without Windows, but the bulk of our computing is done in Linux. For this scenario, VMware is just the ticket and frees one from either dual booting (a horrible tradeoff) or having multiple workstations (much more expensive than a simple OEM Windows license for almost all hardware). (*) I know Amazon.com began using Xen about a year ago and it proved very popular when it came time to provisioning for many of the subsets of some team's services. The popularity came largely because of the cost effectiveness of sharing a given machine among many independent OS instances that would otherwise require separate computers.
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