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Old 03-30-2010, 01:58 PM
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Re: are programs noticeably slower when you run them on a virtual machine


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Originally Posted by elch View Post
Qemu is recommendable over VMware and VirtualBox if your CPU supports KVM. It is more lightweight and in my opinion more powerful. But if your CPU is not virtualization-aware, Qemu with Windows XP is rather unusable.
I like the GUI that VirtualBox offers. It is very intuitive, very easy to use, you don't need to use command line at all.

However Qemu is much much faster on my PC. I couldn't possibly imagine using Photoshop for Windows in VirtualBox, while it works OK in Qemu. I should admit that Qemu requires much more time to learn how to use it.

I would recommend to try both VirtualBox and Qemu.
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