From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 5 18:59:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1637637B422 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 18:59:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA40925; Sun, 6 May 2001 03:59:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Message-ID: <3AF4B009.2D3B4912@eboa.com> Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 03:59:37 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eBOA - Programming the Web X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Dempsey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM? WAS Dual Boot Win2K with RAID 0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Dempsey wrote: > > What is the performance hit running as a virtual machine? Some of the > software I run atop Win2K is pretty performance stressing (complicated > Photoshop, video editing). Depends on the architecture. How much emulation is involved. Believe there's a demo (time limited) available so you can judge for yourself if the penalty is right for the crime. Roelof PS another benefit would seem to me to be that one could get away with running Win95 or something in lieu of NT. Thereby saving on royalties whilest still benefitting from the stability gains of FreeBSD. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- eBOAź est. 1982 tel. +31-58-2123014 web. http://eBOA.com/ fax. +31-58-2160293 mail info@eBOA.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message