tackfurlo
May 17th, 2009, 01:55 PM
Ok, I have an ideal system I want to run, but thus far I haven't seen any way to do it, so I'm running Windows 7 RC1 with Ubuntu 9.04 in VMWare (using Unity). What I have works, but the Ubuntu applications are very slow to respond. Keystrokes take 10 seconds to register in the GNOME Terminal, and I cannot get Tilda to work at all. My system is an ASUS N80Vn-A1 (Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz, 4GB DDR3, 320GB HDD, NVidia 9650M GT with its own 1GB GDDR, etc.) so it's not the most cutting edge hardware in the world but it's what I want, and I'm happy. It does support hardware Intel VT.
However, this is not what I really want. I want to have both Win7 (setup as it is now, capable of playing UT3 on max graphics settings without any hint of slowness) and yet I also want to have a native Ubuntu install, as opposed to running this in a VM. I work as a paralegal (though my passion is web coding) and In a typical 8 hour day, I will spend 1 hour typing 4 time-critical legal documents then spend the next hour trying to hit flies with cans of RAID because I'm bored to death. No matter what anyone says, Ubuntu isnt much for gaming, but I'd prefer to use it for basically everything else. I have dual-booted in the past, but the issue here is the reboot process takes 3 to 5 minutes and during that time I really need to be 2 to 4 minutes into a document, not waiting on a reboot.
So, what I want is to run some sort of hypervisor. I want to be able to run both Win7 (or something XP-or-later) and Ubuntu at the same time. I don't mean have both installed at the same time, I mean have both actually booted up and running simultaneously. Then, I want to be able to switch from one to the other in less than a minute (and preferably less than 10 seconds) with nothing more than a single key press. I don't think I really want a hypervisor, because I need windows to have 100% direct access to the hardware (especially the graphics card) to run my games. I don't want either OS, but especially not windows, to access hardware through an emulation layer. But what I do want is to run both OSes, at the same time, and be able to hot swap between them on the same system. If I cannot do that, perhaps some sort of VMWare-like functionality where I pause one OS then switch to another would work, but it has to be drastically faster than doing a full reboot, and I cannot wait on programs to reload to their previous state. If it's going to take me one minute to pause one then resume the other, I can't be waiting for the other to reload the programs, etc once it boots up.
So...does anyone know of any system that will do this?
However, this is not what I really want. I want to have both Win7 (setup as it is now, capable of playing UT3 on max graphics settings without any hint of slowness) and yet I also want to have a native Ubuntu install, as opposed to running this in a VM. I work as a paralegal (though my passion is web coding) and In a typical 8 hour day, I will spend 1 hour typing 4 time-critical legal documents then spend the next hour trying to hit flies with cans of RAID because I'm bored to death. No matter what anyone says, Ubuntu isnt much for gaming, but I'd prefer to use it for basically everything else. I have dual-booted in the past, but the issue here is the reboot process takes 3 to 5 minutes and during that time I really need to be 2 to 4 minutes into a document, not waiting on a reboot.
So, what I want is to run some sort of hypervisor. I want to be able to run both Win7 (or something XP-or-later) and Ubuntu at the same time. I don't mean have both installed at the same time, I mean have both actually booted up and running simultaneously. Then, I want to be able to switch from one to the other in less than a minute (and preferably less than 10 seconds) with nothing more than a single key press. I don't think I really want a hypervisor, because I need windows to have 100% direct access to the hardware (especially the graphics card) to run my games. I don't want either OS, but especially not windows, to access hardware through an emulation layer. But what I do want is to run both OSes, at the same time, and be able to hot swap between them on the same system. If I cannot do that, perhaps some sort of VMWare-like functionality where I pause one OS then switch to another would work, but it has to be drastically faster than doing a full reboot, and I cannot wait on programs to reload to their previous state. If it's going to take me one minute to pause one then resume the other, I can't be waiting for the other to reload the programs, etc once it boots up.
So...does anyone know of any system that will do this?