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?
next prev parent 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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