Board:   [DeveloperNet] Unix/Linux Development
Subject: Microsoft vs. open-source
From:    Nightfox
Date:    Fri Jun 18, 2010 08:42

  Re: Microsoft vs. open-source
  By: art to Nightfox on Fri Jun 18 2010 08:14:34

 > One thing to note is that virtualbox now supports D3D on windows guests, so
 > you still prefer to run Linux hosts, Windows 3D performance in guests are
 > greatly improved these days.

That's good - One of the things that has bugged me in the past is lack of 3D
performance in virtual machines.I admire the developers of virtual machine
software who are able to do what they do..

 > I've been considering decommissioningthe physical machine used to host Fatc
 > BBS, and doing a P2V (physical to virtual) and running it in a VM--does anyo
 > run their boards out of VMs currently? I'd be interested to hear some opinio
 > of your experiences...

I've been running my BBS in aVM for over a year now.  The reason is that I've
been using a 64-bit OS as my main OS, and many BBS doors (being 16-bit DOS
apps) aren't supported in 64-bit versions of Windows anymore.  So I installed
Windows 2000 in a VM for running my BBS, and it has generally worked well
enough.  A couple months ago, I moved my BBS over to a VM (running Windows
2000) in Parallels on my Mac Mini (because that's my only other desktop PC
right now, and I didn't want to keep the PC in my bedroom running all the time
due toheat).

Nightfox

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