Subj : Microsoft vs. open-source
To   : art
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Jun 18 2010 07:42:00

  Re: Microsoft vs. open-source
  By: art to Nightfox on Fri Jun 18 2010 08:14:34

 > One thing to note is that virtualbox now supports D3D on windows guests, so 
 > you still prefer to run Linux hosts, Windows 3D performance in guests are
 > greatly improved these days.

That's good - One of the things that has bugged me in the past is lack of 3D
performance in virtual machines.  I admire the developers of virtual machine
software who are able to do what they do..

 > I've been considering decommissioning the physical machine used to host Fatc
 > BBS, and doing a P2V (physical to virtual) and running it in a VM--does anyo
 > run their boards out of VMs currently? I'd be interested to hear some opinio
 > of your experiences...

I've been running my BBS in a VM for over a year now.  The reason is that I've
been using a 64-bit OS as my main OS, and many BBS doors (being 16-bit DOS
apps) aren't supported in 64-bit versions of Windows anymore.  So I installed
Windows 2000 in a VM for running my BBS, and it has generally worked well
enough.  A couple months ago, I moved my BBS over to a VM (running Windows
2000) in Parallels on my Mac Mini (because that's my only other desktop PC
right now, and I didn't want to keep the PC in my bedroom running all the time
due to heat).

Nightfox

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