[BozemanLUG] Question..

[Sheldon Ross]

To be honest, that sounds like a whole lot of wishful thinking. 
Especially since your hardware doesn't have VT instructions built in.

VT instructions are what allow the guest OS to have near native control over the hardware(proc and mem at least) because they 
are actually instruction sets built into the chip. So something like KVM on vanilla linux installations would give you the
best virtualization with the lowest impact, AFAIK.

You could always just get an SSD for a system drive and dual(triple...etc) -boot for fast boot times and switching between OS's.

Sorry to be such a downer, :)

Ross.

Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:08:18 -0800
From: mstone0802 at gmail.com
To: discuss at bozemanlug.org
Subject: Re: [BozemanLUG] Question..

The only thing that I don't like about the interface is that there's more to it than I want.  I want my interface to be as low impact as possible, with no real host OS.  VMWare Server still requires a Linux installation, or a Windows installation.  Access is done with the VMWare Infrastructure Client, and it basically looks like the same thing as running Virtual Box or VMWare Workstation.  If I could, I'd have the BIOS handle the Virtual Machines.  That's how low level I'd like this to be.  Everthing would run in full-screen mode (there wouldn't even be a non-full screen mode).  It would be just like you were running the OS natively if you didn't know any better.


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org> wrote:

Mike,



I haven't tried the newest version (which is about 5 times bigger than the previous release) but as far as I understand it operates just like VirtualBox.  What is it you don't like about how guest OSes are accessed?  Assuming your host OS is setup for the same resolution(s) your VM is, the VM in full-screen mode isn't too bad.  Of course I don't recommend multimedia or games... but for everything else it is fine.



Nothing like that exists that I'm aware of... even if you had VT.



TYL,

--

Scott Dowdle

704 Church Street

Belgrade, MT 59714

(406)388-0827 [home]

(406)994-3931 [work]

_______________________________________________

Discuss mailing list

Discuss at bozemanlug.org

http://lists.bozemanlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss



_________________________________________________________________
Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync.
http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_explore_012009
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.bozemanlug.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20090112/19234ec4/attachment.html