Federico Bruni <[email protected]> writes: > 2015-05-04 20:29 GMT+02:00 Phil Holmes <[email protected]>: > >> Years ago I started by (accidentally) using it as a live OS. It's a >> useless way of trying to use it. I wouldn't bother to try to support it. > > > I totally agree. In my experience a live OS makes sense only when you must > fix something in the real installation
The VMs add a layer of resource management in between. It's particularly bad if you have VM files rather than partitions: in that case you get two file systems on every file access. Memory management and CPU time management is similarly impacted. In effect, this means that you should be using a considerably more powerful computer than what you'd need for native operation. When GUIs get involved, sometimes the layering is also noticeable. I remember that when I was the guinea pig for VM usage in a company I worked at, pressing Alt and releasing it without action (and this kind of reconsideration happened a few times a day) made the computer busy for a moment before it asked me whether I was handicapped and it should be holding the Alt key for me. Now since that actionless release of the Alt key often was related to developing a different thought line to follow, this Clippy-like distraction tended to come at the worst possible moments. Well, at one point of time I created an own partition for my VM to fix the file system performance problem. And some times later I justed booted that partition and thus got rid of the Windows layer interfering with my work. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
