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Hardware / Re: Benchmarks on real vs virtualised hardware
« on: 2011.04.13, 03:04:37 »
Hiya Dave,
Yeah I must say I was surprised - I was expecting to find a penalty in terms of compiler speed running under a virtual machine - I did the tests to determine how big the penalty would be, and could I live with it.
I was absolutely staggered to find that the virtual machine gives the best results.
I have a 2nd hard drive with eCS installed in the new machine, so I'll continue to test things out as they develop - ie fixed gradd.sys for mtrr settings, updated danis506.add, etc
However for me, my desktop usage at home is pretty much email and web and compiling code.
Email and web I can do from any OS, compiling code I need eCS - as I don't actually create code, I'm not a good enough programmer for that, I just port stuff to eCS - something that gives me a lot of satisfaction, and something I do as a 'release' from my day job.
Knees are coming along well - a 'clean out' of some arthritis from behind both knee caps. Should be back at work next week.
Cheers,
Paul
Those results are fantastic! I have often wondered if it would be possible to set up an absolutely minimalist Linux (I haven't found a distribution I really liked) that all it does is run VirtualBox and somehow you could have it boot to a VirtualBox menu where you then choose your OS... sort of like a Boot Manager or AirBoot ... and then run whatever OS's you like virtually. A 'VirtualOS' or BootOS' so to speak. Your results show it could be a viable solution.
As you know, I too got a new motherboard and processor and am less than thrilled with how eCS runs on it, although it seems certain the issues will be taken care of eventually. I think I will spend some time looking at Linux again...
Hope everything works out with your knee.
Yeah I must say I was surprised - I was expecting to find a penalty in terms of compiler speed running under a virtual machine - I did the tests to determine how big the penalty would be, and could I live with it.
I was absolutely staggered to find that the virtual machine gives the best results.
I have a 2nd hard drive with eCS installed in the new machine, so I'll continue to test things out as they develop - ie fixed gradd.sys for mtrr settings, updated danis506.add, etc
However for me, my desktop usage at home is pretty much email and web and compiling code.
Email and web I can do from any OS, compiling code I need eCS - as I don't actually create code, I'm not a good enough programmer for that, I just port stuff to eCS - something that gives me a lot of satisfaction, and something I do as a 'release' from my day job.
Knees are coming along well - a 'clean out' of some arthritis from behind both knee caps. Should be back at work next week.
Cheers,
Paul
