Re: [tlug] linux notebooks, virtualization, windows: Have to run Windows as Primary OS: Why?

[Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com>]

On 08/03/2010 08:58 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> jep200404@example.com writes:
>  > At least Xen seems to be able to run Windows within Linux. 
> 
> Most virtualization schemes can, and AFAIK it's way preferable both
> for stability and for efficiency to use Linux as the host OS.

The only major issue is having hardware visualization support, without
it full visualization is very slow.  I have found qemu works better for
desktop environments because it allows you to easily kill the guest os.

Edward