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* Jc García <jyo.garcia@×××××.com> [150726 12:06]: |
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> 2015-07-26 9:33 GMT-06:00 Todd Goodman <tsg@×××××××××.net>: |
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> > I like and use VirtualBox a lot (and agree it's easy to use.) |
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> > But the performance and USB handling mean that I need Windows or other |
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> > OS' on bare metal most of the time. I don't know how well Dell's crap^W |
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> > support stuff runs in a VM. |
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> The contrary experience here, USB has been the thing that got me to |
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> use VirtualBox many times, I have put usb drivers, printers, 3g |
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> modems, even adb trough the pass-trough feature of virtualbox, with no |
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> problems, in fact for some years for printing purposes I had to use a |
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> VM, and Virtualbox was the fastest to get working(click conect usb |
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> printer, install the windows drivers, print). I'm suspecting you also |
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> didn't run it with a very new computer, a server 2012 could run fine |
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> for testing some stuff, with 1 core limit and 512M RAM over here, |
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> using the virtualization capabilities of the processor. but I haven't |
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> dealt with DELL hardware. |
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It works OK sometimes with USB but I've had problems getting even USB |
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disks to be seen by the VM and forget it when the USB devices change a |
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lot dynamically. It doesn't work at all in an environment like that. |
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And I use it with state of the art machines. Recent quad core i7 machines with plenty of memory and using processor virtualization features. Not just Dell |
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machines. |
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And on server machines we've had to move off VirtualBox due to |
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performance issues. |
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I'm not knocking VirtualBox. I love it and continue to use it whenever |
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I can. |
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But there are still cases where a native boot is needed for me. |
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> BTW, to Alan, I have never had to call to support for any laptop, but |
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> do they really have someone that could know more than you to help? I |
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> would seriously suspect most cases you are just talking to a call |
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> center agent whom clearly isn't doing a job that requires much |
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> knowledge about computers, that may be just reading some general |
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> 'reboot your pc' type instructions, and would likely suggest you to go |
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> to a professional technician at the arise of the slightest seemingly |
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> serious problem. But I might be wrong, and dell support could be |
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> awesome(I hardly think so, I know a lot of people who give support at |
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> call centers). |
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In the times I've had to deal with support it's usually about doing what |
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they ask so they finally believe that it's a hardware problem and will |
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generate the needed RMA # to get replacements. Sometimes that's running |
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Dell Diagnostics and sometimes it's just running through something they |
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know how to do in Windows so they're convinced. |