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From: Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
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Subject: Re: All VM-based development
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 02:01:22 -0700
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On 1/10/2025 1:25 AM, Sergey Kubushyn wrote:
> Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
>> On 1/9/2025 9:54 PM, Sergey Kubushyn wrote:
>>> Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Has anyone tried moving entirely to VM-based systems for
>>>> their (hardware/software/documentation) development efforts?
>>>> Admittedly, there is a bit of a performance penalty vs.
>>>> native iron.  But, it could simplify things by allowing
>>>> fewer physical hosts and shifting the burden to a bigger
>>>> VM store (just more disk space -- which you'd already have
>>>> for physical hosts!)
>>>
>>> Ever tried to run Altium Designer PCB Editor in a VM?
>>>
>>> Please let us know when you succeed and explain how you did it.
>>
>> What problems are you having?  Under which VM environment?
> 
> Did you try it under ANY VM environment? Had it worked in ANY VM? Please
> share what environment it was.

*YOU* are the one who has (apparently) attempted to "try it" and
met with failure.  I've asked you to explain how that failure
manifested and what environment you were using.

Is that too much to ask?  The point of my post was to elicit
SPECIFIC problems folks have had with this approach.  I can
then reevaluate how I might approach the issue.

E.g., I am pretty sure my SDI video will be "tricky" to keep
working in such an environment; so, easier to opt to preserve
that entire workstation "as is" than to hope someone else
*might* have such a card and MIGHT have tried using it in a
particular VM environment.

> That is just one thing that doesn't even access some special hardware. Just
> a mere CAD, duh...