On Dec 20, 2007 10:27 AM, Eberhard Roloff
Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Dec 19, 2007 5:25 PM, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru)
wrote: Hi !
I have a tough choice. Client have an Intel-based Quad-Core PC with SuSE 10.3, and time to time (~1 - 1.5 hours day) needs Win XP with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamveawer and some weird video editing programs. He does not want to reboot he;s workstation in "clean" WinXP-only mode.
The obvious cantenders for virtualization are: VMware, VirtualBox and Xen (KVM/QEMU does not suitable because it lacks guest OS video acceleration).
The question is - which of these virtualization solutions will offer best performance, especially in terms of graphic/video screen redraw, sound latency, and 3D graphic ?
Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s).
As to VMware: The free version, VMware Server, is NOT optimized for desktop use. It works, but not the way you're describing. You would need to consider VMware Workstation and I don't have any experience with that.
VMware workstation works great but not better than the free (as in beer) VMware Server. Even if it is "not optimized" (whatever that means, it simply works.
However, as VMware Server will move away from being a desktop virtualization substitution to vmware workstation with the upcoming version 2, I would suggest to use virtualbox, instead.
This IS a desktop virtualization product, it is free, rediculously easy to setup and it just works like vmware workstation, at least imho.
However with any virtualiuzation solution, imho you will need to say goodbye to any serious dreams of 3D-performance.
Does that really have to be the case though? With XEN, your able to isolate physical pci slots to a virtual machine. Why couldn't he just put a 2nd Vid card in, that's dedicated to the virtual machine? He could go even further, put a usb card in another slot, and a network card too. Setup a 2nd monitor, mouse, and keyboard, and you have a 2nd workstation that's there whenever you need it! I haven't ran any 3D intensive app's within a virtual machine or anything, but if it's isolated hardware, logically, I can't see any reason for issues. My .02 Mike
Kind regards Eberhard
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