On Tuesday 31 August 2004 07:08 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
I have to concur with this. The overhead for the virtual machine is not negligible and the fact that two competing OS vye for resources in a way they were never designed to do (i.e., cooperatively) mean neither OS will perform as well as you're accustomed to.
Say what? The one OS is running under the other OS. They don't compete any more than any other software competes for cycles. Vmware is nothing but a process under Linux, (or vise versa if Vmware is running on a windows host). They get along just fine. Performance is good on adequate hardware. (For some values of Adequate, given some values of good). Vmware is great for emulating the entire machine, we use it for software development all the time. Yes it is a bit of a dog but anything over a P4 1.6ghz with over half a gig of ram works very snappy. We uses it for windows software development with several VMware machines running at the same time (talking to each other over tcpip. You just can't do this type of testing under wine or Coo. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen