On 6 January 2016 at 17:01, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 13:30 +0000, Ian Malone wrote: >> Is there any less drastic approach? > > You don't really explain your use case. I find it's enough to run the > occasional Windows session in a VM, but if you depend on high- > performance 3D graphics (e.g. for gaming) that may not be enough. For > most everything else it's fine. >
This is probably better now than it was before, but with a two core system and not a massive amount of RAM it seems a better use to dual boot on the laptop (and on my desktop I dual boot because that's exactly what I use windows for). Allowing access to the shared partition (music and other data) means I can get at that from both sides of a dual boot, I can install windows programs there if necessary to avoid having a large chunk of space stuck in a c:\ partition or VM image. That would be a bit harder from a VM (if possible at all, not sure filesystem passthrough will work for a windows client, samba is awful). Also, my windows license is a hardware one, not for VM. I can only see the windows in a vm helping in this situation if there's a neat way to give it fairly transparent access to a filesystem on the host machine. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
