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From: Klaus Kragelund <klauskvik@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: All VM-based development
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:18:20 +0100
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On 10-01-2025 10:01, Don Y wrote:
> 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...
> 
> 
I looked into it a month ago since I got a new PC. My intention was to 
use it for the programs that could be updated often (compilers, maybe 
Altium/Orcad)

Seems any VM and container takes significant resources (both CPU load, 
but more important memory). So I did not go through with it.