Hi all,
So i've been looking through the sticky to get a better idea of virtualisation. I was told that there isn't much point in continuing to dual boot my systems, but rather I should virtualise them. I have installed virtual box and seem to have got the hang of it. I've also used a trial of vmware workstation. It seems to me that the virtual "Guest" gets pretty good access to the CPU and RAM, but quite lousy access to the graphics card. if this a fair assessment?
I was looking at the VMware page and noticed that VMware fusion for mac is advertised as "near native" speeds. Is there anyway to get this without a mac? I have a 2008 macbook air, but it can't really spare any resources to virtualise.
I've been using Ubuntu for about a year and pretty much used it as my sole OS, occasionally booting into windows to play some games. However my new laptop needs to use windows because the manufacturer provides loads of tuning apps that only work on windows, But I want to use mostly Ubuntu, so I'm thinking I can boot up windows 8.1 as they intended, but boot to Ubuntu full screen and use that primarily.
Does anyone have any tips on how to best implement this? like I say I only use windows for games, and would have got rid of it if it wasn't for all the manufacturer stuff.
Also, could someone help my understand Qemu and KVM - the sticky really confused me, do I need a "hypervisor"?
Thanks guys!
So i've been looking through the sticky to get a better idea of virtualisation. I was told that there isn't much point in continuing to dual boot my systems, but rather I should virtualise them. I have installed virtual box and seem to have got the hang of it. I've also used a trial of vmware workstation. It seems to me that the virtual "Guest" gets pretty good access to the CPU and RAM, but quite lousy access to the graphics card. if this a fair assessment?
I was looking at the VMware page and noticed that VMware fusion for mac is advertised as "near native" speeds. Is there anyway to get this without a mac? I have a 2008 macbook air, but it can't really spare any resources to virtualise.
I've been using Ubuntu for about a year and pretty much used it as my sole OS, occasionally booting into windows to play some games. However my new laptop needs to use windows because the manufacturer provides loads of tuning apps that only work on windows, But I want to use mostly Ubuntu, so I'm thinking I can boot up windows 8.1 as they intended, but boot to Ubuntu full screen and use that primarily.
Does anyone have any tips on how to best implement this? like I say I only use windows for games, and would have got rid of it if it wasn't for all the manufacturer stuff.
Also, could someone help my understand Qemu and KVM - the sticky really confused me, do I need a "hypervisor"?
Thanks guys!