On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Reindl Harald h.reindl@thelounge.net wrote:
one reason more to have one priamry OS and use virtualization for anything else these days where the virt-overhead is nearly zero and in many cases virtual machines are faster than physical setups
That is only partially accurate on CPUs that feature hardware virtualization support (AMD-V or Intel VT-x). The other day just for kicks I tried installing the latest Ubuntu virtualized on a Atom based Netbook running XP SP3, and it took about two hours just to install... performance could be described as "slow as molasses". ;). But yes, I guess that if you use a Quad-core with AMD-V or VT-x and 8 gigs of ram, things would be almost seamless.
Which reminds me of something.... I noticed that the latest Ubuntu features an optional kernel ("Linux-virt" package) that is supposedly optimized for running Linux virtualized.... is there such a package in Fedora? (never looked, just thinking aloud :).
TIA FC