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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:25:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <j85h82$os4$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EA5E2C5.7030706@xunil.at>

On 10/25/2011 01:12 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 20.10.2011 18:47, schrieb Mark Knecht:
>
>>> Gentoo hosts run KVM, in there virtual Windows-machines for various
>>> specific software they need.
>>>
>>> Stable so far.
>>
>> Good to know. Maybe I'll give it a try.
>
> reply 2, new thoughts
> (perspective: running *one* Windows-XP-VM on a desktop-machine, for some
> specific software):
>
> Linux 3.1 brings KVM-related improvements. I will check those.
>
> I don't see any performance-issues here with KVM, waiting for
> vmware-player just out of curiosity ... (and KVM is told to be more
> efficient anyway, closer-to/inside the kernel).

How is video and mouse performance?  VMware has drivers for that; you 
install them inside the guest.  There is seamless mouse integration with 
guest-host, and very fast graphics (I can run Windows Aero without 
problem.)  I can also drag&drop files between my Linux and Windows 
desktop and also share the clipboard.

Does KVM have something similar?




  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-25  5:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-13 22:22 [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-19 21:05 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-19 21:14   ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-20  9:53     ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-20  9:56       ` Andrey Moshbear
2011-10-20 10:57         ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-20 12:27         ` [gentoo-user] " Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-20 13:00           ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-20 13:28             ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-20 16:47               ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-20 22:13                 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-24 22:12                 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-25  5:25                   ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2011-10-25 11:15                     ` [gentoo-user] " Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-25 17:08                       ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-01 11:18                         ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-01 11:13                     ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-01 12:12                       ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-11-01 19:16                         ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-03 21:18                           ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-04  4:32                             ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-11-04  8:20                               ` Stefan G. Weichinger

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