On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Ken Restivo <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:16:00PM -0700, Tobiah wrote: >>> I've always dual booted, because of Windows games, and for some >>> Windows audio and music software. ÂNow I have a firewire interface that >>> only works with Jack under Linux, which is unpleasing. > > Â[ ... VMware story elided ... ] > >> Cool idea, though I would have run the Windoze in the VM box, and had a real operating system running on the hardware. But yeah, virtualization is a LOT more convenient than dual boot for those who need multiple OSen. > > If (and only if) you can run the Windows software inside Wine, you > will get MUCH better performance than you will from virtualization. I > do appreciate that this is not an option for a lot of desirable > Windows software, but the list gets smaller every month. I run VMWare everyday. Every benchmark I've run runs within 1% of the the same machine running Windows 7 native. For my money Wine, while very well intentioned, isn't worth trying to to shave out .5%. The biggest advantage I get from VMWare and am not sure I'd ever get from Wine is that the main program I have to run in Windows (TradeStation) isn't multi-threaded. Under Windows on my 6 core/12 thread i7-980x I don't use more than 2 threads running TradeStation. (1 for TS, essentially 1 for Win 7 supporting it.) Running VMWare under Gentoo I often run 5 copies of VMWare which equates to 10 threads leaving 2 threads for Gentoo to control all the hardware. I don't think Wine will _ever_ run 5 copies in parallel. Granted, this work is heavily computational and not typical of anything I do in the audio area, but VMWare eliminated my looking Wine for a long, long time. I haven't bothered much with audio on that machine so I cannot say how well apps like Kontakt might work, but audio output does work so watching NetFlix, etc., works perfectly. - Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
