[mythtv-users] Processor Recommendations?

[Brian Wood]

On Feb 9, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote:

> John Pierce wrote:
>> I have googled, read xen wiki, looked at amd and intel web sites and
>> still cannot come up with a definitive answer.  I am, within the next
>> week, going to purchase two laptops and I want to be able to run xen
>> source with full virtualization on at least one of them (my wife  
>> still
>> needs win xp).
>
> YMMV, but I tried XP under Xen/FC6 on a 3GHz Core 2 Duo and it was a
> dog. I get *much* better performance with the free VMWare Server  
> (which
> AFAIK doesn't even use hardware virtualization for 32-bit guests). The
> main reason being VMWare's optimized (and virtualization aware) XP
> drivers for the virtual hardware, I think.
>
> Yes, I would prefer Xen too...

And depending on what your wife "needs" XP for you might be able to  
use Wine, or even run Windows under qemu, which is pretty fast with  
the kqemu module.

There are a lot of solutions for somebody who "needs" windows, and  
xen is not a particularly stable, fast or mature one. As Boleslaw  
said vmware may well be your best answer.