XP/Ubuntu dual-boot

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Nov 13 21:50:50 UTC 2007


On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 04:30:45PM -0500, E K wrote:
> But, don't you think it is better to run Windows on a virtual machine
> like qemu or kvm than reboot your machine for a limited application
> that you intend to run on Windows? One advantage you can have is that
> once you create the virtual machine and activated windows XP you can
> make a copy of the virtual machine file to use it in case at some
> later time your Windows machine is screwed. That will save you
> another installation followed by a long call to MS and some
> explanation for another activation.

Depends what you are using windows for.  If it is for games, then no a
virtual machine is a terrible idea in general since you need direct
access to the video card to get any kind of game performance for most
games.

If it is just to run some applications that aren't video intensive, then
a virtual machine does make a lot of sense.

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