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Re:This is the best "we're hiring" image ever drawn by barrkel on Friday August 20, 2010 @09:14AM (#1620285)

I generally find the quality of multiprocessing in the guest OS is not good; nor is accelerated graphics. Most VMs are ok if all you need is single proc non visual performance, though.

Disk IO is often poor too.

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Re:This is the best "we're hiring" image ever drawn by cschep on Friday August 20, 2010 @11:20AM (#1620616)

An SSD + 4 cores made the difference for me to finally move my Linux "box" into a VM and not look back. But again, I'm also just doing terminals, vim, and Chrome.

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Re:This is the best "we're hiring" image ever drawn by barrkel on Friday August 20, 2010 @11:38AM (#1620664)

I have an SSD, 8 cores, 12 GB RAM etc., but trying to get processes in the guest OS to scale across multiple cores is very much an uphill battle. VMWare's dual-core emulation was actually worse than single processor for my uses cases.

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Re:This is the best "we're hiring" image ever drawn by eru on Saturday August 21, 2010 @05:10PM (#1623668)

Yes, scheduling on multiple virtual processors is still not really a solved problem.

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