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Re: [Xen-users] Intel shipping hardware VM CPU's already... more comingD

To: Taneli Leppä <taneli@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Intel shipping hardware VM CPU's already... more comingDecember 27 2005 65nm
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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:57:20 +0100
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Taneli Leppä wrote:

Daniel Goertzen wrote:

My dream desktop will run xen with a linux dom0 for all the network and
storage goodness, and WindowsXP in a domU so I can play all my games. As I
understand it, a few things need to happen:

[...]

Even with xen drivers in Windows, I wonder how much slower disk access will
be.  Some games already take a really long time to load, and I wouldn't
tolerate a big increase.


Just exactly what does Xen has to with gaming? It's obviously
meant for servers - which is exactly where the development effort
should be focused.

Try VMWare or Wine, those are more desktop-oriented (though the latter
isn't exactly a virtualization system).

Well for one thing almost all benchmark tests include quake3 fps somewhere :-)




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