VirtualBox

[Dick Dowdell]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5 August 2014 15:33, Dick Dowdell <dick.dowdell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sorry, Liam.  Bottom posting ceased to be the email norm a long time ago.
>
> Not on mailing lists, happily.
>
> Personally I read from the top of the page to the bottom, so I
> bottom-quote; perhaps you do not. :¬)
>
> I know that poor-quality proprietary tools like Outlook can't handle
> it well, but then, are we not all FOSS users here?
>
> > With current hardware, virtualization has become commonplace in
> commercial
> > computing.  As a software developer (40+ years), I need to be able to run
> > clients and servers of multiple OSs to develop and test my work.  I can
> not
> > afford to reboot to switch OSs and I often need multiple VMs running at
> the
> > same time.  VirtualBox is easy.  I currently have 1 Windows and 4 Linux
> VMs
> > running on a Ubuntu host i5 machine with 8 GB RAM and 2 TB of disk.  I
> can
> > add and remove guest VMs quickly and easily.  I can also save unused VMs
> and
> > restore them as needed.
>
> I am not sure what you're saying here; it doesn't seem to be a reply
> to my point?
>
> I am not arguing against VBox -- indeed right now I am defending it in
> a thread over on the Ubuntu Server list. But I don't see it as a
> replacement for running OSes on the bare metal.
>
> If, for instance, I want to run a current game -- something I very
> rarely do, but I admit to a sneaking fondness for Portal -- then I
> wouldn't use a Windows VM, I'd use the real thing running natively on
> my machine.
>
> I am abroad using a notebook, but I still have a 1TB disk in my
> machine along with the SSD that it boots off. Yes, in a notebook.
> Space is pretty cheap these days, so I keep both a real physical
> install of Windows around as well as a VM. I think my 1TB notebook
> drive was well under £100 earlier this year.
>
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Liam,

I cannot claim to be much of a gamer, so I'll have to defer to you on that
issue.  I guess that my point is that with hardware-level virtualization,
which is required by the current generation of VirtualBox and VMware, a VM
is pretty damn close to bare metal performance.  Unfortunately, I don't
think that that includes accessing a high-powered video card.

If one is not a gamer, VBox is far more convenient than dual booting.

Cheers!
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