Mono required by ubuntu-desktop

Dan McGarry it.psl at fsp.org.vu
Fri Aug 11 02:29:02 BST 2006


didier . wrote:
>> Not that I know of, but while it's true that VMWare's virtual I/O should be
>> faster than reading from a CD, I think the other overhead of virtualization
>> compensates for it.  Even with plenty of virtual memory, the UI is sometimes
>> not very responsive.
> Maybe but I don't believe you can compensate an average 100ms seek
> time, it's a different world :)

There's no need to speculate; VMWare can boot from a physical CD. Then 
you'd have virtualisation overhead *and* CPU-intensive and slow CD-based 
operations. 8^)

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Dan McGarry	it.psl at fsp.org.vu

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