On 6 January 2016 at 17:01, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 13:30 +0000, Ian Malone wrote:
> Is there any less drastic approach?
You don't really explain your use case. I find it's enough to run the
occasional Windows session in a VM, but if you depend on high-
performance 3D graphics (e.g. for gaming) that may not be enough. For
most everything else it's fine.
This is probably better now than it was before, but with a two core
system and not a massive amount of RAM it seems a better use to dual
boot on the laptop (and on my desktop I dual boot because that's
exactly what I use windows for). Allowing access to the shared
partition (music and other data) means I can get at that from both
sides of a dual boot, I can install windows programs there if
necessary to avoid having a large chunk of space stuck in a c:\
partition or VM image. That would be a bit harder from a VM (if
possible at all, not sure filesystem passthrough will work for a
windows client, samba is awful). Also, my windows license is a
hardware one, not for VM. I can only see the windows in a vm helping
in this situation if there's a neat way to give it fairly transparent
access to a filesystem on the host machine.
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