<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Zachary Kotlarek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zach@kotlarek.com">zach@kotlarek.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div id=":1ox" class="ii gt">Depending on load the VM setup could actually be faster than any desktop they could reasonably have, since you're running on hardware that's natively much faster -- a HS22 blade is not a slow machine and it's unlikely that everyone is going to have 2x Xeon-5600 workstations connected to a Fibre SAN at their desk.<br>
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Obviously if everyone hits compile at the same time, or if there are enough VMs that memory/etc. is limited that will not be true, but if peak usage is non-simultanious and each VM has enough resources the VM setup could be faster for the short bursts of intensive use you're talking about.<br>
</div></blockquote></div><br>What about display refreshing? As I'm picturing this in my mind I think of something like Terminal Server which often don't have quite as fast of a display update as my desktop.<br clear="all">
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