Linux dual boot?

[Bryan O'Neal]

Not to defend windows here but I have no issues with VM on windows.
Mind you I use ESXi for all serious work related stuff now days but I
use Server2 on my windows desktop with no issues. The only
"performance" hit is that you need to pay attention to windows disk
and memory optimization, which is something you don't need to worry
about in Linux. But that is just a windows sucks issue not a VM under
windows sucks issue.

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
> Eric Shubert wrote:
>>
>> Stephen wrote:
>>>
>>> What i personally envision for my desires is a dual boot system that
>>> can run the non-active system in VM. so if i boot windows i can run my
>>> Linux install in vm, or if o boot Linux i can run windows in VM.
>>
>> That would be possible if your Linux and Win are on their own drives. Raw
>> Devices works with raw drives, but I'm not sure about raw partitions (I have
>> a hunch raw paritions might be possible, but I haven't seen anyone claiming
>> to have done it yet). You would need a 3rd drive to run the host OS from,
>> possibly a USB drive. Someone on the list here was doing something along
>> these lines fairly recently.
>>
>>> It can be done i think but i haven't had it work out well yet... (that
>>> whole flipping hardware about)
>
> This part just hit home. Windows will have a problem switching
> configurations due to hardware differences. I don't know of a way around
> that. Linux shouldn't have much of a problem with this though.
>
>>> And ext and reiser fs's handle the weird disk load needed for OS/VM
>>> allot better and Linux as a whole doesn't dink with the disk anywhere
>>> near as much as windows. so if windows is your host this is my
>>> personal suggestion if you have the budget for it. Ideally i would
>>> love to se wine take such a hold that i can drop windows entirely, but
>>> i think that is unlikely to happen. MS is developing their back-end
>>> strongly and its to much for the wine team to really stay on top of
>>> unless some of those API's are open sourced. but they may prove me
>>> wrong yet.
>>
>> I'm a little surprised that anyone would choose any Win OS as a VM host.
>> I'm not surprised that VMs on Windoze have performance issues.
>>
>
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> -Eric 'shubes'
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