Hi Andy and Randolph,
Although I have not tested it myself, I have heard others complain that Virtual PC is slow. We have been pleased with VMWare, however we are not using the vms to run actual simulations....
-Jack
Andy Stone wrote:
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Hi Randolph,
I'm currently running RADIANCE on Cygwin, but previously used MS Services for Unix. I ran into a few weird compatibility type problems with SFU (I don't remember the specifics now) and in the end decided to switch to Cygwin because it seems to be better supported (for other Unix type tools as well as for RADIANCE).
I've also previously made a comparison between Linux (Suse) running as a virtual machine under windows (using MS Virtual PC) and Cygwin. Using the test case from Mark Stock's benchmark page I found that Cygwin was a bit faster than the virtual PC (something like 15-20% faster) -- at least on my specific PC for that specific test case.
Andy
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It's probably not possible to implement a virtual machine that's as fast as native operation without extensive support from the processor vendor. I think only IBM does this at this time, in their large-scale server systems. OK, thanks.
Randolph
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On Jul 1, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Jack de Valpine wrote:
Hi Andy and Randolph,
Although I have not tested it myself, I have heard others complain that Virtual PC is slow. We have been pleased with VMWare, however we are not using the vms to run actual simulations....
-Jack
Andy Stone wrote:
Hi Randolph,
I’m currently running RADIANCE on Cygwin, but previously used MS Services for Unix. I ran into a few weird compatibility type problems with SFU (I don’t remember the specifics now) and in the end decided to switch to Cygwin because it seems to be better supported (for other Unix type tools as well as for RADIANCE).
I’ve also previously made a comparison between Linux (Suse) running as a virtual machine under windows (using MS Virtual PC) and Cygwin. Using the test case from Mark Stock’s benchmark page I found that Cygwin was a bit faster than the virtual PC (something like 15-20% faster) – at least on my specific PC for that specific test case.
Andy
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