Wine?

[Christopher Chan]

On Tuesday, November 02, 2010 12:48 AM, Luis Paulo wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:31, Russ Foster<rjf at russfoster.com>  wrote:
>> The point of the original post was: don't run video editing software in a
>> virtualized environment on a local machine.
>>
>> More specifically; there are two very resource intensive applications, video
>> editing and sound editing.  These will not run better in a virtualized
>> environment under any circumstances.
>>
>
> What is "run better"?

Let me give one perspective that has proven true. More stable. In this 
case, it would not be just the application, but the entire operating 
system too.


>
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 13:01, Jordon Bedwell<jordon at envygeeks.com>  wrote:
>> You guys wanna put money on whether they can't run very good on a
>> virtual machine? This isn't aimed at Christopher, but I really do get
>> tired of people blaming virtualisation for their /crappy/ and I repeat
>> it again over and over /crappy/ hardware.
>
> "run very good"? Are we kidding?

No. Not kidding at all. Nobody in their right mind will run things in an 
environment for some extra benefits at a big cost.


>
> You are not meaning "run faster on a VM", right? Because if so, I may
> give you some links about virtualization for you to read.

Nobody said anything about speed.


>
> Virtualization is not about the run. The advantages may be found elsewhere.

Oh it is. Who'd do virtualization if it kept crashing even if you have 
all the other advantages?


>
> One, is hardware abstraction. An example is to transport a server to a
> different computer.
>
> Other is running multi systems (or releases, or upgrade status) on the
> same computer at the same time.
> Running windows programs while running your favorite OS is an example.
>
> The [virtualization] advantages may be found elsewhere.
> May because you may not need virtualization. As in you may not need
> internet, or a quad core, or another disk, or ...
>
> Thats my opinion, and for now I'll stick to it.
>

Yes, but these that you have listed are not all there is to it