[PLUG] Preferred VM on Mac for Linux

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Tue May 29 02:38:30 UTC 2012


>>>>> "Russell" == Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> writes:

>>>>> "Russell" == Russell Johnson <russ at dimstar.net> writes:
Russell> I'm curious what you do on a Linux box that you can't do on a
Russell> Mac?

Russell> I heard a talk by Greg K-H a month or so ago that said that
Russell> some processes run faster IN A VM on a linux guest than they
Russell> do natively on a Mac.  I don't remember the details, but it
Russell> was an amusing anecdote.

IIRC, the claim was embedded somewhere in this interview:

  http://www.foodfightshow.org/2012/04/episode-8-back-to-kernel-with-greg.html

Here is another instance of the same (or a similar) claim:

  http://blog.client9.com/2008/04/virtualization-is-faster-than-native-on.html


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