Sorry. I Meant virtualization only. I want one which has all options like USB, desktop etc and has good manuals. I dont prefer that it be easy to set up though.
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 00:37, Chris Miller <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Bill Oliver <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Is VirtualBox really significantly slower? > > > > Bummer. It was so easy to set up, too. How much performance am I losing? > > It's slower on disk I/O. On most CPU/RAM operations it's not much > different than a natively running OS. The same is true for Xen. The > difference is that because Xen uses a specialized kernel for the guest > OS, it's much more performant for disk I/O and caching. > > > Basically, I have an app that requires RH Enterprise, so I run CentOS on > my > > Mandriva box using VirtualBox. It's a visualization program, and I > noticed > > that some of the volume rendering was a little slow, but I assumed that > was > > due to my processor, and not to my virtualizaton... > > Graphics acceleration for guest OSes is still in a state of > terribleness. The only one that I've seen that doesn't look like a > massive tub of fail is VMWare Fusion 3. Fusion 2 was OK, and Fusion 1 > had OK graphics acceleration, but it was still new and quite buggy. I > don't pay too much attention to Parallels desktop simply because past > hosting experience with Parallels tech has convinced me that their > ability to access disk resources is slow. > > VirtualBox does have some 3D acceleration, though I haven't used it > much. It's probably unstable and I wouldn't suggest it on a Linux > host. Linux GFX drivers are fail, and will crash just as soon as look > at you. GFX drivers on Windows and Mac OS X are less fail (but still > pretty terrible). > > I wholly recommend that you try enabling 3D acceleration, but don't be > surprised if X11 locks up or your machine does a hard reset. > > -- > Registered Linux Addict #431495 > For Faith and Family! | John 3:16! > fsdev.net | 0x5f3759df.org | chrismiller.at > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > -- Jibu N.C. "Don't tell God how big your storm is, Tell the storm how big your God is!!!!!" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
