* Re: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP
@ 2010-01-28 15:05 99% ` Mark Knecht
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From: Mark Knecht @ 2010-01-28 15:05 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2010/1/27 Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:25 AM, The Doctor <drwho@virtadpt.net> wrote:
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>> > Mark Knecht wrote:
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>> >> The last time I looked at this (maybe a year ago?) I decided that the
>> >> vmware-workstation would let a home user run something like two
>> >> instances without charges. Not free in that I'm limited to something
>> >> specific but no cost. (Is that free beer? It certainly doesn't sound
>> >> like Free Speech...)
>> >
>> > There is also a 60-day time limit on the un-paid-for version of VMware
>> > Workstation, as I recall.
>> >
>> > - --
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>> > The Doctor [412/724/301/703]
>>
>> I got VirtualBox up and running with XP but nothing much more
>> yesterday as I ran into XP licensing issues again with M$ and sort of
>> backed off.
>>
>> I haven't figured out what's up with vmware-player networking yet. I
>> can get to the web in a browser just fine, do updates through M$
>> Update, do GMail. It looks perfect. However WinSCP running in
>> vmware-player isn't yet finding other machines on my network. IIRC
>> there were different models of networking you could set up. I have to
>> go back and relearn that stuff but it's not critical to me until I
>> determine if the new machine is really fast enough to run TradeStation
>> and, very importantly, if the networking is stable enough and
>> transparent enough to allow me to connect to their network for real
>> futures trading. That will force me to dig in if it isn't OK right
>> now.
>
> are you sure that it isn't your routing tables that aren't ok? try
> tracerouting the ip you're trying to access and see if you can reach it.
> if you cannot you'd have to add the correct routing entries in windows
> routing tables.
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> dott. ing. beso
>
Actually I was pretty sure it _was_ routing. I just hadn't had time to
look into it at that point. At this point I have. It seems the copied
image decided to go with DHCP (or I had it that way and forgot) so I
was pointing at the wrong IP address. It all works fine now.
Ah, the power of Gentoo on multiprocessor systems. There is a standard
benchmark everyone runs on TradeStation just to gauge the relative
speeds of their systems. The fastest reported so far has been about 3
1/2 minutes running on a very expensive i7-9_something. (IIRC he paid
maybe $1K for the processor and MB, then $300 for a new copy of Win7
Professional.) This new machine of mine with the new Core i5-661 and
standard memory speeds (I have gaming memory but haven't speed up to
those gaming speeds yet) ran about 4 minutes 18 seconds using XP
native.
This morning, using Gentoo AMD64 and VMWare Player running a Win XP
image the same TradeStation benchmark ran 4 minutes 20 seconds.
Essentially identical. And with proof that VMWare limited itself to 1
processor I suspect I can run 4 copies in parallel and except for the
memory and disk access parts of it essentially cut the speed by a
factor of 4. (Oh yeah - I'll probably want better cooling...) Of
course I'll need to prove this but the future looks bright!
Not sure if the list allows attachments but I did a screen capture of
top showing processor usage as the optimization benchmark was running.
1 processor pegged, everything else idle.
Cheers,
Mark
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