Linux dual boot?

[Stephen]

I have just had my vmware workstation driven to a crawl by VM's
running. but thats my general usage on top of that and I'm pretty
heavy haded on my machines resources or spoiled both fit.

and i have felt similar performance impacts when doing the same thing
under Linux with vmware server on the same hardware

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Bryan O'Neal
<Bryan.ONeal at theonealandassociates.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> -Eric 'shubes'
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