On Wed, April 27, 2016 10:07 pm, Brian Bernard wrote:
> Oh, I wouldn't flame you.
>
> Hmm, I didn't think of using a virtual machine. The Lenovo has a NVidia
> 960MX, so I wonder if it would fully work under a virtual machine.
Probably not. Normally virtual machine does not have that level of
possession of hardware. At least Sun-Oracle Virtual Box doesn't. Somebody
may correct me if I'm wrong here. If I were to do it, I would choose as
host system the system your software requiring OpenGL is available for.
And add other systems you need in virtual machines. Laptops, though
powerful these days, still not the best choice for virtual machines IMHO.
Valeri
>
> The reason why I ask is that I do systems adminstration with
> meteorological
> software that requires OpenGL 2.0 and at least 2GB of video ram.
>
> Thank you for your reply, Mike.
>
> Brian Bernard
> On Apr 27, 2016 10:43 PM, "Mike Mohr" <akihana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Don't flame me, but I really recommend using Ubuntu on laptops. If you
>> really want CentOS, you should go with version 7. Many new laptops won't
>> work well with that either though.
>>
>> CentOS 6 only works well these days on older hardware or on virtual
>> machines.
>> On Apr 27, 2016 7:27 PM, "Brian Bernard" <brian.brianbernard@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm looking at buying a Lenovo Y700 Notebook, and wondering if it would
>> work with CentOS 6. Or if anyone has experience with using it under
>> CentOS
>> 6. I assume that the WiFi could be an issue as it uses an Intel 8260
>> card.
>> I want to make the correct decision.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Brian Bernard
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