John Oliver wrote:
Then how about VMware Server? It does not require special hardware, nor does the OS require special drivers.
Well, actually it kinda does the moment you want to touch hardware with anything approaching reasonable speed.
But, VMWare does full emulation ala QEmu. It emulates *everything* in software. If you can do that, you can play a lot of tricks to make things faster and VMWare has a lot of tricks.
Even so, it's noticeably slower than a native OS on the same hardware. The issue is that I normally don't care. I'm running VMWare because I need Windows or a specific Linux instance. In those cases, I'm happy to pay the speed penalty to not have to go configure a separate piece of hardware for something that I'm only likely to need for a specific task.
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