new box

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On 31/05/09 01:48 PM, Verde Denim wrote:
> AMD quad-core X64 Phenom 2 on a GIGABYTE mobo with an NVIDIA XFX GTS 1GB
> DDR3 graphics card
> 
> It seems most of the components will run with Ubuntu, but the dilemma is
> this -
> I want to run Ubuntu as a primary with Win as a virtualbox within it.
> I've had some scary slow performance problems in the past
> running mickysoft in virtual under Ubuntu.
> 
> Have others here on the list got an opinion strongly in 1 direction or
> the other (win w/ubuntu as virtual vs ubuntu w/win as virtual?)

You should be able to run Windows under kvm (kernel-based virtual
machine) and qemu with little to no performance penalty on that machine.
Especially with the latest generation Deneb processors, AMD has
apparently made some significant improvements to context switching times
in virtual mode, not that the previous generation was any slouch. Having
said that, I think you could squander half your system resources and
still run Windows plenty fast. I've run Windows in VMWare hosted by
Linux on *much* slower hardware (P3/850MHz) with much less system
resources (512M RAM in total) and it was perfectly adequate but, I
didn't care about fast video frame rates or squeezing out the last bit
of performance either. It all depends on what you're trying to do.
-- 
Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis
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Toronto, ON
Canada  M4N 3P6

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