[olug] XenWhatever

aric at omahax.com aric at omahax.com
Wed Oct 12 16:56:09 UTC 2011


hmmmmmmmm

Use an SSD drive for a fixed static parent VHD and create a differencing
VHD on a ram drive on boot....

> .....if you are trying to do that why not just boot to a vhd as your OS
> drive.
>
>> That's really to bad.  I great solution to home users getting viruii
>> would
>> be to have the same sort of snapshot ability like your VM's can at work.
>> Even just having the ability to reset the entire machine when a reboot
>> is
>> done would be great.
>>
>>
>> ---- Bill Brush <bbrush at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Don't try gaming on a VM, it is a path filled with pain and suffering.
>> :-)
>>
>> In all serious you could do Flash games, but don't expect any real
>> video performance.  Even with VMware the 3D acceleration is crap when
>> it works at all.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Jason N <dashrender at cox.net> wrote:
>>> Say again?  Xendesktop is a client level 1 hypervisor?  As in it's
>>> meant to be used on the desktop so you can run muliple VM's on your
>>> laptop/desktop?  Any idea how good it is at using video hardware to
>>> play video games?
>>>
>>> and who owns Xendesktop?  Citrix or is it part of the opensource GNU
>>> license set?
>>>
>>> T
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