21 Oct
2010
21 Oct
'10
4:03 p.m.
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Ken Restivo
<ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:
I run VMWare everyday. Every benchmark I've run runs within 1% of the
the same machine running Windows 7 native. For my money Wine, while
very well intentioned, isn't worth trying to to shave out .5%.
The biggest advantage I get from VMWare and am not sure I'd ever get
from Wine is that the main program I have to run in Windows
(TradeStation) isn't multi-threaded. Under Windows on my 6 core/12
thread i7-980x I don't use more than 2 threads running TradeStation.
(1 for TS, essentially 1 for Win 7 supporting it.) Running VMWare
under Gentoo I often run 5 copies of VMWare which equates to 10
threads leaving 2 threads for Gentoo to control all the hardware. I
don't think Wine will _ever_ run 5 copies in parallel.
Granted, this work is heavily computational and not typical of
anything I do in the audio area, but VMWare eliminated my looking Wine
for a long, long time.
I haven't bothered much with audio on that machine so I cannot say how
well apps like Kontakt might work, but audio output does work so
watching NetFlix, etc., works perfectly.
- Mark
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:16:00PM -0700, Tobiah
wrote:
> I've always dual booted, because of Windows games, and for some
> Windows audio and music software. Now I have a firewire interface that
> only works with Jack under Linux, which is unpleasing.
[ ... VMware story elided ... ]
Cool idea, though I would have run the Windoze in
the VM box, and had a real operating system running on the hardware. But yeah,
virtualization is a LOT more convenient than dual boot for those who need multiple OSen.
If (and only if) you can run the Windows software inside Wine, you
will get MUCH better performance than you will from virtualization. I
do appreciate that this is not an option for a lot of desirable
Windows software, but the list gets smaller every month.