On Mar 3, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Thursday, March 03, 2011 01:20:06 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
>> Compare against CIFS/Samba shares or NFS exports bewteen booted
>> host/guests. You get native filesystem support (under the host/
>> guest as
>> relevant), and mappings via CIFS/Samba and/or NFS/NIS+.
>>
>> The win is still virtualization.
>
> There are situations where dual-booting is a necessary thing to do;
> one of those is low-latency professional audio where accurate
> timekeeping is required; basically anything that needs the -rt
> preemptive kernel patches. I actually have need of this, from
> multiple OS's, and while I've tried the 'run it in VMware' thing
> with Windows and professional audio applications the results were
> not satisfactory.
Agreed.
Even with high end 3D were OpenGL is a must.
Even Photoshop CS5 takes advantage of graphic acceleration.
I look to virtualization for ;
isolation
quick app access for specific guest OS.
great fault tolerance
testing theories, deployments
lower over all hardware cost in aggregate
- aurf
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