[SunRescue] Re: Recommend starter Sun?

[David Cantrell]

Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc at cu-portland.edu> wrote:

> Just 1 thing to say here...  vmware.  I use it for my compiles, partly
> because I package software, and I want a clean build host, and partly
> because it does a wonderful job of "niceing" things so that performance
> is still reasonable.  I haven't tried it with SMP just yet, but I've
> heard that it does even better on SMP boxen. 

IIRC, if you run it on an SMP box, vmware itself will be SMPed however
the host OS does this normally, *but* vmware only ever emulates a single
CPU machine.  What this means in practice is that vmware will take one
CPU for its pretty-much-exclusive use, which is, IMO, the right thing to
do anyway.

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