[ltp] Re: Ultrabay hard drive

[Dave Atkins]

Hi Josh-

I have been an avid Fedora/VMWare user for about 3 years now.

The only time I boot over to windows is to play a videogame, or to use
Adobe Acrobat 7 (whose licensing loses its mind in VMWare).

On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 10:37 -0800, Josh wrote:
> I looked at vmware a little bit.  Wouldn't it slow the
> computer down to use Windows as well as programs on
> top of Linux?  
It does slow down, as there is quite a bit of overhead using both. But,
it does not slow down nearly as much as you would think.

> For example, running Photoshop and
> Image Ready on Windows in VMware while running Firefox
> and a text editor also?  
> Is there any part of Windows that doesn't run
> well under VMware?

Your graphics programs will slow some because they don't have direct
access to the display driver like they do in Windows, and anything using
OpenGL forget about it.  

But, with Firefox, text editors, programming tools, MS Office and their
ilk, I don't notice a slow down, you are not likely to see a slow down.


> (I have 1GB memory.)

I have 1Gb of RAM, in a T40. I do a lot of client server work and
routinely run my Windows 2000 server with Sybase SQL Server and a heavy
application in one session and a Windows 2000 Professional running the
graphical client and development tools in another session.

I believe (and you can take this with a grain of salt), that some
disk-intensive operations, like compiling, and text file manipulation
are actually faster in VMWare than they are Windows native.

I recently gave a demonstration of the above application using an
external monitor to run the server and three users.  And, the customer
thought we were using their server.

D.