For a while doing work for a vendor I
offloaded a build image into a vm, and just used a virtualbox as a
corporate image in windoze 7, complete with all the
security/spyware installed, which actually would tax the
underlying host some. Using it with virtualbox, I'd just lower
the execute cap on it some, and twice a day when their spyware
would kick off and start scanning the host system, while killing
the 2 cores I gave it, the host experienced no degradation what so
ever.
Great part is now I didn't need a physical "vendor laptop", I just
cloned the image between my desktop and laptop, using them
mutually exclusively one at a time. Oddly windoze domain never
seemed to.figure it out I was gaming it.
I weened myself off windoze gaming long ago for needing native gpu
access, so there's no reason at all it's can't simply live in VM
I've found in the past 10 years, and too many reasons FOR doing
keeping windoze virtual-only.
As I said earlier, usually my biggest resource contention is ram.
I find using linux as a desktop it's not uncommon to be using
20-25gb of ram (chrome+chromium+firefox+libreoffice) after a few
weeks of uptime with normal usage, so firing up a vm would
occasionally oom and wreak havoc on things. Make sure you have
enough ram to cover linux AND windoze.
-mb
On 04/19/2016 02:07 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:
I have not been able to run a large enough
workload to see the difference.
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