Re: Emulators etc

[Peter Cassidy pcassidy@xxxxxxxx]

Correct. VMWare is not an emulator - more of an OS and processor traffic
cop. The OSes are executing natively.

It's quite peppy running Windows and Windows applications, as long as I
don't have 127 applications open at once time. I did spend the extra few
pennies and max out the MacBook Pro with 4G of onboard memory to give
the guest OSes all the headroom they would need.

Peter

Harry Binswanger wrote:
> Actually, is VM Fusion even an emulator? You are using an Intel chip
> with an installed Windows OS, so maybe all that VM is doing is
> managing the disk space and the "talk" with the peripherals.
>
> I think this is an important issue: emulation has to be much slower
> than running native. I suspect that with VM, to run Win program on a
> Win OS on an Intel chip requires no translation of some code into others.
>
> I believe VM is quite fast at executing Win programs, is that correct?
> And does that mean there's no software-translation/emulation?
>
>
>> 1) In VMWare, the guest operating systems are provided with shared
>> directories that include any of the host's directories. I have mine set
>> up so that all the Windows applications directories dialog pane has an
>> extra Desktop ready for a Save-to command or an Open command so that I
>> can always find my work on the host OS X system's desktop. 2) In VMWare
>> you can run the guests in a window of any dimensions you want, in a
>> full-screen mode or in Unity, in which the applications would appear as
>> if they were executing in the native host OS.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> Paul Breeze wrote:
>> > Since we are talking emulators at the moment, can somebody help me
>> > with two queries. First, do emulators allow access to the underlying
>> > file system of the operating system on which they are running? Ie If
>> > I run XY in an emulator can I load text files from the underlying file
>> > system and then save them back to that system? Second, can any of
>> > them be used in portrait mode to provide a full screen window
>> running XY?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Paul Breeze
>> >
>
>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx
>
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