From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E75lF-0000Xb-9S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 06:26:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7M6OIx4009387; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 06:24:18 GMT Received: from smtp105.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp105.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.169.225]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7M6KbKZ004620 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 06:20:37 GMT Received: (qmail 38397 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2005 06:21:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.100?) (richard?j?fish@68.230.97.177 with plain) by smtp105.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Aug 2005 06:21:15 -0000 Message-ID: <43096EDA.3080203@asmallpond.org> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:21:14 -0700 From: Richard Fish User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050807) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare? References: <20050821030120.72306.qmail@web52905.mail.yahoo.com> <200508202204.01570.john@jolet.net> <8f7a9d5805082020463538f994@mail.gmail.com> <20050821083933.23539649@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050821083933.23539649@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e03203a4-21e7-47f7-a17b-bd8632b1b586 X-Archives-Hash: 4679eac85ae6a8964251c908f5c107fc Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:46:20 -0300, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales >wrote: > > > >>I agree with John. It is better to have a robust system (Gentoo) and >>run the bad one (Windows) on user space (via VMWare) so it can't do >>much damage. >> >> > >That's how I do it and it works well. I very rarely use VMWare for >Windows, mainly for testing on different Linux distros. It runs virtually >as fast as native hardware, apart from a slight reduction in disk speed >from the virtual disks. > >VMWare 5 is very nice, and runs much better on amd64 than the 4.x series. > > > I've done this both ways with Workstation 4.5. Using Windows as the host OS is a good choice if you want every single piece of hardware to "just work". I never had a problem with speed (only with the clock, as someone else mentioned), except for compiling. The virtual machine memory bandwidth seems to be significantly reduced compared to native, by maybe as much as 50%, which made compiling take quite a bit longer. Maybe this is improved in WS5, although I can't really say, because now I run the "right way" (TM). One possibility is to setup the system as a dual-boot system, and give yourself the choice of running Gentoo from within VMWare or natively. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list