Re: Spinoff: Using Linux for work? was RE: Why Tech-Writers ShouldKnow About ...

[David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Virtualization is an interesting technology, but I would not suggest
running Linux in a virtual machine on a Windows box--unless you have a
*very* fast machine with loads of RAM.

Running Windows on a Linux box is somewhat better; you could expect to
see about a ten percent slowdown in the Windows environment compared
to running it natively.

If what you seek is to run Windows applications, though, there are a
number of other solutions that may be less expensive and work at least
as well for most apps. Running Office on a Linux box can be done with
Cross-Over Office, for instance.

The real dark horse in the virtualization race is Xen, a "virtual
machine monitor." Ongoing work with it is to have a dual-core machine
able to run two operating systems simultaneously. With dual-core AMD
and Intel chips out now, I would expect to see this working well in
the next year or less.

That should be extremely interesting.

David


On 9/19/05, jguptactoc -at- yahoo -dot- com <jguptactoc -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> Hello -
> 
> An alternative to dual-booting is to use VMWare - software that
> "virtualizes" hardware. Here's a simple definition:
> 
> "..VMware allows you to run operating systems on virtual hardware, so you
> could run Microsoft Windows in VMware on Linux, or Linux in VMware on
> Windows." From http://www.cs.toronto.edu/support/vmware/
> 
> The VMware Workstation is about $200. You can download a copy of the
> supported SUSE Linux for about $60. You first set up VMWare to create
> virtual hardware, and then set up SUSE Linux on the virtual hardware.
> VMWare supports other flavors of Linux, including Red Hat.

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