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[ILUG] Is vmware real?

[ILUG] Is vmware real?

Paul Jakma paul at clubi.ie
Fri Mar 17 16:56:49 GMT 2006


On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, conor at discuskeeping.com wrote:

> I found that it sucked-ass.com without the module. Pretty much 
> unusable on a P4 with HPT or Athlon-xp 2Ghz. I'd imagine the 
> opteron would be better though.

Well, "unuseable" depends on use.

For graphical stuff, qemu on its own is pretty damn slow.
For anything disk IO related, qemu is unuseably slow (e.g. compiling)

That's not what I use qemu for though.

regards,
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Paul Jakma	paul at clubi.ie	paul at jakma.org	Key ID: 64A2FF6A
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