[X4U] 10.5 instead of 10.6

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Thu Feb 11 10:14:52 PST 2010



On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Chris Jones wrote:

>> Do either of those solutions allow you to throttle the virtual machines
>> running under them?  If so I can setup a Linux instance specifically to run
>> a VAX emulator, and retire yet another system.
>
> Depends what you mean by throttle. I use VMware Fusion and with that you can 
> certainly limit the amount of RAM, or number of CPU cores each VM gets to 
> see. You can't (AFAIK) throttle them to only get x% of the available CPU 
> power for a given core (so for instance give one VM 1GHz worth of a 2.5GHz 
> core...).

That was my fear.  I'd like to be able to say that the instance gets 50% of
one core.  Though if I can at least limit it to running on a single core,
that would help some.

Thanks,
Zane




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