RE: [BLUG] VMWare Workstation and full virtualization

First off, I don't play games under Windows or Linux, but I do use
VMware Server quite a bit. In theory, yes, Workstation should be able
to run games at "native speed" (minus the virtualization overhead). I
think you'll find that you're limited, however, by the video drivers
that are running in your VM.

On a side note, if performance under VMware while playing games was
"good enough", I think you'd find a lot more people doing that as
opposed to the gamers who keep XP around solely for games.

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Jeremy L. Gaddis
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-----Original Message-----
From: blug-admin@cs.indiana.edu [mailto:blug-admin@cs.indiana.edu] On
Behalf Of Joe Auty
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 2:30 PM
To: blug@cs.indiana.edu
Subject: [BLUG] VMWare Workstation and full virtualization

Okay,

Probably worth a new thread about this since we're no longer talking
about Xen.

According to the Wikipedia, VMWare Workstation and Server now offer full
virtualization. This means that Workstation ought to be able to run
games at native speeds under Linux, no? Has anybody tried doing this?

I don't see any advertising of this on:

http://vmware.com/products/ws/new.html

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Joe Auty
NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians
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joe@netmusician.org
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