Jan-26-2017, 02:32 PM
(Jan-25-2017, 12:00 PM)wavic Wrote: I don't use VM. A VM can't use a hardware acceleration, can't access the hardware at all instead perhaps some peripherals such as USB and the DVD. As I know. I am far from an expert level
Depends on the VM software. The whole "cloud" runs on VMs. If there were performance problems doing so, it wouldn't. What you don't see in VMs are GPUs. But the whole CPU instructions set is available.
Same for peripherals. Depending on release/licence, the VM software can give full or partial access to the physical peripherals. Given that one purpose of VMs is to "sandbox" things not having such access is seldom a problem.
I have spent the last 5 years running a WindowsXP and a Windows7 VM at work. Believe it or not it ended up giving better performance than what my colleagues obtained running native Windows on the very same hardware. There were two possible reasons: 1) the logical drive was one single unfragmented file, speeding up the IO, and 2) running in a VM, a lot of the Windows ancillaries could be removed (I would have much more efficient equivalents running on Linux).
Another benefit: when my HDD died, it took me a couple of hours to re-install/restore Linux on the new one. And then 5 minutes to get a backup of the Windows VM.
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