The best thing about operating a virtual machine is...

...it makes my physical machine seem *fast*! o_O

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Invisible wrote:
> The best thing about operating a virtual machine is...
> 
> ...it makes my physical machine seem *fast*! o_O

What I find interesting is that, even though the virtual machine is 
about 200x slower than a physical machine, it still manages to 
communicate over the Internet, apparently without issue. I guess the 
emulator must be doing some pretty significant buffering to pull this 
off, mind you... o_O

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Invisible wrote:

> What I find interesting is that, even though the virtual machine is 
> about 200x slower than a physical machine, it still manages to 
> communicate over the Internet, apparently without issue. I guess the 
> emulator must be doing some pretty significant buffering to pull this 
> off, mind you... o_O

I wish it would buffer my keystrokes... I had to type some stuff several 
times, leaving a 2 second pause between each keypress, before it would 
register *all* of the letters I typed. :-S

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Invisible wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
> 
>> What I find interesting is that, even though the virtual machine is 
>> about 200x slower than a physical machine, it still manages to 
>> communicate over the Internet, apparently without issue. I guess the 
>> emulator must be doing some pretty significant buffering to pull this 
>> off, mind you... o_O
> 
> I wish it would buffer my keystrokes... I had to type some stuff several 
> times, leaving a 2 second pause between each keypress, before it would 
> register *all* of the letters I typed. :-S

What VM software are you using?

-- 
~Mike

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Mike Raiford wrote:

> What VM software are you using?

QEMU.

It's the only VM software I can find that doesn't require you to 
"install" it before you can use it. If you have a better suggestion...

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Invisible wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
> 
>> What VM software are you using?
> 
> QEMU.
> 
> It's the only VM software I can find that doesn't require you to 
> "install" it before you can use it. If you have a better suggestion...

Sun's Virtual Box worked rather well for me. It also has extensions 
compatible with most of the major distros (You can integrate the Linux 
windows with your desktop, share files with the host, pass through some 
USB devices, etc...

-- 
~Mike

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>>> What VM software are you using?
>>
>> QEMU.
>>
>> It's the only VM software I can find that doesn't require you to 
>> "install" it before you can use it. If you have a better suggestion...
> 
> Sun's Virtual Box worked rather well for me. It also has extensions 
> compatible with most of the major distros (You can integrate the Linux 
> windows with your desktop, share files with the host, pass through some 
> USB devices, etc...

Yes, I was looking at Virtual Box just yesterday. It looks a lot more 
user-friendly. (E.g., you configure a VM using a GUI rather than miles 
of cryptic command switches.)

OTOH, you definitely need to "install" it before you can run it. My 
objective is to create a VM that I can put on a USB stick and plug into 
some arbitrary PC to quickly pull up a Linux console or something.

I might try something like Virtual Box or Xen on my home PC tho...

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On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:00:26 +0000, Invisible wrote:

>>>> What VM software are you using?
>>>
>>> QEMU.
>>>
>>> It's the only VM software I can find that doesn't require you to
>>> "install" it before you can use it. If you have a better suggestion...
>> 
>> Sun's Virtual Box worked rather well for me. It also has extensions
>> compatible with most of the major distros (You can integrate the Linux
>> windows with your desktop, share files with the host, pass through some
>> USB devices, etc...
> 
> Yes, I was looking at Virtual Box just yesterday. It looks a lot more
> user-friendly. (E.g., you configure a VM using a GUI rather than miles
> of cryptic command switches.)
> 
> OTOH, you definitely need to "install" it before you can run it. My
> objective is to create a VM that I can put on a USB stick and plug into
> some arbitrary PC to quickly pull up a Linux console or something.
> 
> I might try something like Virtual Box or Xen on my home PC tho...

VMware Server.  It does also require installation, but it's free (as in 
"no cost") and performance is much better than QEMU.

Jim

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