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Why not? A VM is the same as a real machine.
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when you're done there hook up a trailer home to your prius,
afterall a prius is the same as a real car.
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He doesn't own a Prius, That's one thing we can be 100% sure of.
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Bollocks.
I have developed windows drivers on VMs for many many years and a VM is exactly the same as the real hardware.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: VM is exactly the same as the real hardware
...without the need for and electrical plug.
BTW, it's not really *just* like a physical machine, because VirtualBox still can't handle installing video drivers.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Munchies_Matt wrote: VM is exactly the same as the real hardware
...without the need for and electrical plug.
I'm down to my VM host only. Next year I'm planning on virtualizing it too. I'll be saving a fortune on power.
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I wasn't questioning virtualbox, just the hosting OS, particularly windows as the host as there are bottlenecks introduced talking to the real hardware
(for instance it's lousy wrogly layered network interface and the way it introduces inefficiencies when a better class disk management is layered upon it in that: for instance NTFS kills the optimizations that for instance ext4 attempts ... the reverse is not true as vm's on linux hosts allow a more direct access to the disk so no fighting of optimizations...)
in short: yes vm on windows is workable, but vm's on *nix are inherently better (speed and resource usage particularly at higher loads). on windows hosts simple stuff is fine, heavy/peak load applications not so much, so you should be right.
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Fundamentally Windows is not an RTOS, so trying to run one in a VM on Windows wont give you the same performance of course, no one would expect that.
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I suggest you skip 17.xx then. It's already been abandoned, and NO package will update without some manual mucking around with suprepository config files.
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two bottles of gin 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Sounds great to me. 
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Oh right. I meant "Only two bottles".
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Orbital - Belfast[^]
A few months ago (has it been months already!?) @David-ONeil replied with an Orbital song to a SOTW thread.
It reminded me of this song, which used to be one of my favorites, but which I had forgotten over the years.
Last week I decided to give Orbital another listen and it's amazing.
Their music is great, but Belfast is still their best (so I may have repeated it a couple of times) 
So enjoy this early 90's electronic masterpiece 
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Nice, that one goes straight to my Spotify playlist 
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To get my synapses back after that chthonic burble-bath, I had to use a strong palette cleanser: [^] 
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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BillWoodruff wrote: To get my synapses back after that chthonic burble-bath
Have you been listening to the track I posted? If this sounds like a "chthonic burble-bath" to you your ears may be broken, seriously.
BillWoodruff wrote: I had to use a strong palette cleanser: [^]
Yep, your ears are definitely broken... 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Have you been listening to the track I posted
I cannot use the term "listening" to describe assault on my ears by random waves of modulating air-pressure emitted by black-smoker fumaroles at the bottom of the great trench in Hell named "Noise."
Such mephitic emanations are, however, useful as a purgative remedy for psychic constipation if taken in a five-second dose, then followed by a restorative/palliative sonic douche perhaps in the Vivaldi flavor.
cheers, Bill
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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So now that you've used all those superlatives on a song that's labeled as CHILL OUT I wonder how you would describe a song such as Gorgoroth - Destroyer[^] which is actually made to sound like random waves of modulating air-pressure emitted by black-smoker fumaroles at the bottom of the great trench in Hell named "Noise."
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Sander Rossel wrote: used all those superlatives
Them are pejoratives.
Next time I'm constipated, or feel a need for self-abuse, I'll check-out Gogototh
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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The bloke on the next desk to me uses a pocket calculator to add up lists of numbers that are contained in an Excel spreadsheet.
I've tried telling him about the calculating abilities built into Excel but he won't listen and continues to use the pocket calculator (He says I've got this calculator I bought in 1990 so I'm going to continue to use it!).
Now he's complaining that the batteries in the pocket calculator are running out...
Oh well at least its Friday.
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Reminds me of this Upgrade tools... No time for that[^]
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I have this guy sitting next to me blabbering some stuff about Excel features when I have a perfectly functioning calculator.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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