[Discuss] Experiences virtualizing: Linux hosted in Windows vs Windows hosted in Linux

[John Abreau]

My laptop's BIOS doesn't provide any hardware virtualization options.

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Nuno Sucena Almeida <nuno at aeminium.org>
wrote:

> On 11/13/2015 07:10 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> > When I do need to run Windows, its performance in a VM is abysmal, so I
> > stick with dual-booting for performance reasons.
>
> I run linux guest on linux host and sometimes windows guest on linux
> host and don't see much performance difference, I usually assign 8GB RAM
> for desktop guests. Make sure you have (intel) VT-x and optionally VT-d
> enabled on your bios. I use both linux kvm (qemu) and virtualbox. More
> of the former for servers and the latter for desktops.
>
> Nuno
>
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