02-12-2020, 10:19 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-12-2020, 10:19 AM by ppppenguin.)
Whatever OS you're running, virtual machines can solve all sorts of problems. If WINE can't cope with your Windows software under Linux then use actual Windows running as a VM in Virtualbox. For example I use Virtualbox to run XP on other OSs because I have some software that won't run on later versions of Windows.
The performance penalty for running a VM is now remarkably small. I've got one strange case where some Xilinx software runs a lot faster under some conditions in an XP VM than directly under W7 as the host OS. My only attempt at an explanation is that the Xilinx software was originally written for a 32 bit OS and suffers under a 64 bit OS.
I've not looked at "bare metal" (as against host/guest) hypervisors, attractive as they seem, because they look far too complicated for what I'm trying to do.
The performance penalty for running a VM is now remarkably small. I've got one strange case where some Xilinx software runs a lot faster under some conditions in an XP VM than directly under W7 as the host OS. My only attempt at an explanation is that the Xilinx software was originally written for a 32 bit OS and suffers under a 64 bit OS.
I've not looked at "bare metal" (as against host/guest) hypervisors, attractive as they seem, because they look far too complicated for what I'm trying to do.
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