[PLUG] Preferred VM on Mac for Linux

[Russell Senior]

>>>>> "Louis" == Louis Kowolowski <louisk at cryptomonkeys.org> writes:

Louis> As pointed out in a comment for the last link, there is lots of
Louis> (intentional) caching going on within Fusion.  Any tests for
Louis> this kind of thing would need to either first disable caching,
Louis> or read/write enough that it forces the system to go beyond the
Louis> caching in place.  W/o that, the tests are meaningless.  

Not quite meaningless.  If you want caching, I guess you want to run
in a linux VM. ;-)

It's hard to avoid calling it embarrassing that a VM you host runs
something faster than you can run the same thing natively.  It almost
defies the laws of thermodynamics! ;-)

Anyway, someone asked for an example of why you might want to run a
linux VM under OSX.  That, apparently, is one.


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