Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 10, 2007 12:41 PM
What is this virtualization good for?
I don't run server, mainframe or anything, just my desktop computer. Is it good for anything?
I am very excited about the possibilities of virtualization on the desktop. This means I can run Windows in a virtual machine for testing purposes without having to reboot.
Won't it require a very fast CPU with lots of RAM?
Won't it slow down the system?
New processors support virtualization and make it all much more efficient. You should take a look at some of the benchmarks.
AMD made Hypervisor and I think Intel made vPro or something. Wouldn't it be better if they just made one instead of making one each?
The same thing could be said about 3dnow and SSE and the slightly different x86_64 instruction sets.
Tricky with hardware virtualization, software virtualization, virtualization and paravirtualization.
OpenVZ, Linux-VServer, Hypervisor, vPro, Xen, IPC/PID/UTS virtualization, KVM, etc, its so many
Why do so many companies make antivirus software? There are always going to be competing technologies. That's a good thing. It gives us choice. You just have to do a little homework first.
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Re:Virtualization blah
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 10, 2007 12:41 PMWhat is this virtualization good for?
I don't run server, mainframe or anything, just my desktop computer. Is it good for anything?
I am very excited about the possibilities of virtualization on the desktop. This means I can run Windows in a virtual machine for testing purposes without having to reboot.
Won't it require a very fast CPU with lots of RAM?
Won't it slow down the system?
New processors support virtualization and make it all much more efficient. You should take a look at some of the benchmarks.
AMD made Hypervisor and I think Intel made vPro or something. Wouldn't it be better if they just made one instead of making one each?
The same thing could be said about 3dnow and SSE and the slightly different x86_64 instruction sets.
Tricky with hardware virtualization, software virtualization, virtualization and paravirtualization.
OpenVZ, Linux-VServer, Hypervisor, vPro, Xen, IPC/PID/UTS virtualization, KVM, etc, its so many
Why do so many companies make antivirus software? There are always going to be competing technologies. That's a good thing. It gives us choice. You just have to do a little homework first.
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