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Re: Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover

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Post by k_roy » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 3:51 AM UTC

moondev wrote: post #112

alfalfasprout wrote: post #12

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It shows.

> It shows. Mission accomplished Fusion now supports running Arm virtual machines on Apple Silicon Macs https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusion/13.0/rn/vmware-fusi...

wait what????

lol. I didn't know that was even impossible right now. But I quit playing with VMWare a few years back.

Re: Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover

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Post by mintplant » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 12:18 PM UTC

daynthelife wrote: post #66

mintplant wrote: post #63

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Yep, I do my development almost entirely within a Linux VM on a Windows laptop. Workstation already feels kinda neglected (lack of support for distinguishing between P and E cores is one recent unresolved pain point), so all of this is really putting me on edge.

Is there a reason not to just install Linux (and dual boot into windows if you need it for some things)? I suppose if it’s a work laptop they might not be too pleased with this.

Then I would have to reboot all the time to switch back and forth. And hardware acceleration is better on Windows, so I usually have web browsing, music, videos, messaging, etc, running on Windows on one monitor or virtual desktop while my terminal is open in the Linux VM on another. Like another commenter mentioned, power management on Windows is still better, too.

Re: Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover

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Post by mintplant » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 12:20 PM UTC

temeritatis wrote: post #121

ragesh wrote: post #99

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If you're on Windows and need a VM, why not use Hyper-V? I haven't touched anything from VMWare in decades, so I'm genuinely curious.

VMWare has the best virtual graphics performance IMHO. Hyper-V or Virtualbox is just painful in comparison. Until graphic vendors support partitioning GPU resources to allow sharing the main GPU to a VM using passthrough, it will likely remain one of the best options for many.

Yep, this is the exact reason. I started on Virtualbox but jumped over to VMWare because the graphics virtualization was too broken under Virtualbox to do testing for web browser development (I was interning at Mozilla at the time).