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[Christopher Chan]

On Saturday, October 30, 2010 03:43 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Russ Foster<rjf at russfoster.com>  wrote:
>> You have four mission-critical applications--finance x2, video editing, and
>> sound editing--what do you expect to gain by running 4 native Windows
>> applications on a non-native operating system?
>
> I concur. If you are not happy with the Linux tools available for your
> specific needs, and it sounds like you have evaluated them and you are
> not, then stay with the OS that supports the tools you need. You will
> not get a good experience (&  *certainly* not a *better* experience)
> running Windows under Linux, or Linux under Windows. Don't bother with
> VMs.
>

I don't. Running mission critical software under a VM over here. 
Specifically, Windows 2008 Web Server + SQL Server 2005 Express and 
Softlink Oliver (big Jboss app - blasted thing chews up to 1GB of RAM at 
times) under Virtualbox. The thing is running smoothly now.

I get to snapshot it in case it ever gets infected or somehow trashed. 
Tell me why it is much better if run natively.