Re: All VM-based development

On 10-01-2025 10:01, Don Y wrote:

On 1/10/2025 1:25 AM, Sergey Kubushyn wrote:

Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

On 1/9/2025 9:54 PM, Sergey Kubushyn wrote:

Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
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Has anyone tried moving entirely to VM-based systems for
their (hardware/software/documentation) development efforts?
Admittedly, there is a bit of a performance penalty vs.
native iron.  But, it could simplify things by allowing
fewer physical hosts and shifting the burden to a bigger
VM store (just more disk space -- which you'd already have
for physical hosts!)

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Ever tried to run Altium Designer PCB Editor in a VM?
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Please let us know when you succeed and explain how you did it.

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What problems are you having?  Under which VM environment?

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Did you try it under ANY VM environment? Had it worked in ANY VM? Please
share what environment it was.

 *YOU* are the one who has (apparently) attempted to "try it" and
met with failure.  I've asked you to explain how that failure
manifested and what environment you were using.
 Is that too much to ask?  The point of my post was to elicit
SPECIFIC problems folks have had with this approach.  I can
then reevaluate how I might approach the issue.
 E.g., I am pretty sure my SDI video will be "tricky" to keep
working in such an environment; so, easier to opt to preserve
that entire workstation "as is" than to hope someone else
*might* have such a card and MIGHT have tried using it in a
particular VM environment.
 

That is just one thing that doesn't even access some special hardware. Just
a mere CAD, duh...

 

I looked into it a month ago since I got a new PC. My intention was to use it for the programs that could be updated often (compilers, maybe Altium/Orcad)
Seems any VM and container takes significant resources (both CPU load, but more important memory). So I did not go through with it.