[NBLUG/talk] VMware Linux guest recommendations

[A.C.]

Heads-up - a Kubuntu x64 host runs an x32 guest copy of Windows much 
slower than native speeds.  Our testing in the lab shows the best speeds 
when matching x64 and x32 guests and hosts, but YMMV (especially as 
VMWare continues to release updates).

Best of luck,

A.C.
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Kyle Rankin wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 04:42:18PM -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>   
>> Cameron Tully-Smith wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a Linux distribution that will run fast in VMware; I don't
>>> need everything installed, looking mostly for Java development ala Eclipse
>>> and PostgreSQL.
>>>
>>> Any preferences?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Cameron
>>>       
>> Hmmm .... perhaps a distro that optimizes the binaries for the hardware? 
>>   e.g.:
>>
>> * Arch Linux - optimizes binaries for i686
>> * Gentoo - allows you to tweak the compilation/optimization of binaries 
>> to your heart's content
>> * Debian (64-bit only) - produces optimized binaries for amd64 or ia64 
>> (but if you're running on x86, then stay away:  it's packages are only 
>> i386 optimized)
>>
>> Not sure exactly how much of a speed boost you'll get from optimizations 
>> like this, but I guess it'd help some.
>>
>> Probably just as importantly, though, you should make sure:
>>
>> 1) that you've got a good bit of memory in the box, and
>> 2) that you've enabled as few memory-hogging background process and 
>> daemons as possible
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> DR
>>
>>     
>
> Binary optimizations don't provide much of a benefit even on actual
> hardware and I wouldn't imagine it would be any better when the hardware is
> virtualized. However, if your host is 64bit you might get some extra
> performance if you spin up a 64bit virtual machine.
>
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