-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: What to run on a monster? Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 23:55:29 +0300 From: Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Leon Romanovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Quoting Leon Romanovsky, from the post of Sun, 01 Apr: > > have over 4 gigs of RAM and certainly no intention of running processes > > of more than a few hundred megs in size. > In THEORY, additional advantage is faster and more precise computation > of floating point operations, which is best for heavy computational > simulations. eaxactly, but I'm mainly going to run it as a very smooth workstation and only the very rare case of heavy compilation (say, a kernel) or running a VM > > VMWarePlayer instead? I remember there were some shortcuts in network > > security wehn Xen is activated, so maybe it's safer not to use it if the > > machine is meant to be a firewall as well. > I didn't understand why you need VT, but anyway there is additional good > solution: KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) http://kvm.qumranet.com/ because Xen can't run unmodified Windows without the VT extentions IIRC, and I'd like to do that once in a while to run photoshop, as Gimp is just not there yet. -- Him we do not speak of Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ -- Leon Romanovsky --------------------------------- "It's time to world to changing". ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
