Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 23.11.2010 22:16, schrieb Mark Knecht:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at> wrote:
>>> I consider buying a i5-661 on a DQ57TM board ---
>> And I still haven't done it ;-)
> That's quite a wait! ;-)

Yeah, you know ---  financial crisis and stuff :-)

> Yes, I use vmware-player and VirtualBox-OSE. I built my Player VM's
> using Workstation on a 1 month license and have used Player (from the
> vmware-workstation ebuild in the Pentoo library) for the last year.
> They work great.

ok

> I use VirtualBox-OSE to run Microsoft Home Server. That works great also.

uh, who needs *that* ? on this mailing-list? ;-)

>> I only recently switched to the Player here ... and I was positively
>> surprised.
>
> I'm on my i980x Gentoo machine and am running 3 VM's at the moment all
> in Player. It works well.
>
> I actually haven't done much with VMWare-Player on the i5-661 mostly
> because the machine runs Windows most of the time right now.
>
>
> i think if I was going to use prebuild VMs then I'd likely go with
> VMWare-Player because I have more history with it. If I was going to
> do new installations then I'd work on VirtualBox.

When I started with virtual stuff vmware-server was(/seemed?) more
powerful than -player ... and I stayed with it for quite some time
without ever re-checking features.

Player now is easier to use with current kernels and vmware-modules and
does also remove some issues I had with vmware-server. So: OK .. player!

Right now my vmware-bases VMs run fine with player.

But this is virtualization-talk vs. cpu-talk (=subject of thread)

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I still consider getting a core-i5 or -i7 "for christmas" :-)

It won't get me more spare time, just quicker compile-times ;-)

S