Virtualization

[marek]

Has anyone used Wintel from http://openosx.com

I'd been wandering if their claim of "near native" speed.

Mark

[Steve1496]

Do not buy WinTel. They base thier product off of Qemu, Q's underlyings. Q is free and has more features.

Also, OpenOSX' customer support is horrible.

Steve

[sbender]

Definitely not near native speed. And Q is much better IMHO.

Q is not yet near native speed either, but Windows 2000 is usable. They're working on "real" virtualaztion. See this thread: http://qemu.dad-answers.com/viewtopic.php?p=4325#4325

[marek]

Nice, looks like we are soon going to have some options

http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=5712

[rxcited]

What is the liklihood that VMWare or Parallels will ever support 3D acceleration under their virtual environments? I understand the concept of virtualization is to isolate the VM from the hardware. But over time, the VMs have gotten better and better at providing more support for virtual hardware, like networking, USB, etc. Is it too far out of range of possibility that they could support OpenGL and DirectX within the VM? For it to do any good, it would have to pass these calls directly to the card with a minimum of overhead. This doesn't seem very virtual to me, but could make VM software much more useful to the masses.

Maybe I am asking for pie in the sky. But graphics acceleration just seems like the next advancement to offer to the VM guest host. What do the experts think?

[marek]

For me it is more about being in OS X for browsing, email, office, IM, and java development. In windows I need to use Visual Studio 2003/5 (C#) and SQL Server Manger (2005). As it happens now I run it all in Windows and rarely reboot into Mac.

Virtualized Windows would give me the perfect solution (as long as the performance was good). Hate to have the coolest machine in my office and not use it to its fool potential.

Mark