Wine?

[Luis Paulo]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 00:57, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 02, 2010 12:48 AM, Luis Paulo wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:31, Russ Foster<rjf at russfoster.com>  wrote:
>>> The point of the original post was: don't run video editing software in a
>>> virtualized environment on a local machine.
>>>
>>> More specifically; there are two very resource intensive applications, video
>>> editing and sound editing.  These will not run better in a virtualized
>>> environment under any circumstances.
>>>
>>
>> What is "run better"?
>
> Let me give one perspective that has proven true. More stable. In this
> case, it would not be just the application, but the entire operating
> system too.
>
>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 13:01, Jordon Bedwell<jordon at envygeeks.com>  wrote:
>>> You guys wanna put money on whether they can't run very good on a
>>> virtual machine? This isn't aimed at Christopher, but I really do get
>>> tired of people blaming virtualisation for their /crappy/ and I repeat
>>> it again over and over /crappy/ hardware.
>>
>> "run very good"? Are we kidding?
>
> No. Not kidding at all. Nobody in their right mind will run things in an
> environment for some extra benefits at a big cost.
>
>
>>
>> You are not meaning "run faster on a VM", right? Because if so, I may
>> give you some links about virtualization for you to read.
>
> Nobody said anything about speed.
>
>
>>
>> Virtualization is not about the run. The advantages may be found elsewhere.
>
> Oh it is. Who'd do virtualization if it kept crashing even if you have
> all the other advantages?
>
>
>>
>> One, is hardware abstraction. An example is to transport a server to a
>> different computer.
>>
>> Other is running multi systems (or releases, or upgrade status) on the
>> same computer at the same time.
>> Running windows programs while running your favorite OS is an example.
>>
>> The [virtualization] advantages may be found elsewhere.
>> May because you may not need virtualization. As in you may not need
>> internet, or a quad core, or another disk, or ...
>>
>> Thats my opinion, and for now I'll stick to it.
>>
>
> Yes, but these that you have listed are not all there is to it
>

I've started a new topic "Virtualization (was Wine?)

Regards
Luis