Performance under virtualisation?

[Fenris]

Hi all

Over the last week or two I have been playing with Sun's VirtualBox on my laptop, and finding that it works quite well until I need to do something that is very CPU intensive which in this case is running the RadarBox software. When I do this the CPU allocated to the virtual OS is running flat out and the whole machine (dual core 1.73GHz with 4GB RAM) is pretty sluggish.

I'd be interested to know whether Aurora can shed any light on whether their software will be any better in this regard, I realise that it's asking a question that isn't easy to answer.

Thanks!

[junglejet]

Virtual Software is always slow with graphics because DirectX or OpenGL need to be emulated. Even on hardware virtualized platforms there is no better performance because direct access to graphics hardware is lacking for good reasons.

[dench]

I guess the question is whether Aurora utilises graphics hardware performance, through DirectX or OpenGL, or does everything in software.

If it does utilise graphics hardware, then that's good when running native, but bad when running under virtualisation.

[MichaelWaddicor]

Hi all

Over the last week or two I have been playing with Sun's VirtualBox on my laptop, and finding that it works quite well until I need to do something that is very CPU intensive which in this case is running the RadarBox software. When I do this the CPU allocated to the virtual OS is running flat out and the whole machine (dual core 1.73GHz with 4GB RAM) is pretty sluggish.

I'd be interested to know whether Aurora can shed any light on whether their software will be any better in this regard, I realise that it's asking a question that isn't easy to answer.

Thanks!

Hi

Yes you can run our software in a virtual environment (We us a virtual environment for some of our testing).

However generally I would not recommend  virtual environments for any 3D software mainly due to poor graphic performance.

Also if your graphics card has hardware acceleration our software will use it, this is particularity important if you are using 2 or even 3 high resolution monitors.

Regards

Michael Waddicor.
Aurora Eurotech