Have you ever tried to run an FEA tool (say, Solidworks Flow Simulation) or a rendering tool (say, Modo) on a virtual machine? Bad idea.
Yes. VM's have their place. No. They don't solve the underlying problem for all application cases. As applications get more and more advanced and the need for performance increases VM's are simply not a viable option.
Serious rendering is farmed onto dedicated machines to which the author's argument has very little relevance.
Yeah sure, there are edge cases such as FEA which cannot be virtualized without dramatic losses in performance, but unlike the cherry picked examples, floating point operations are not the critical path for most applications.
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>"Well, I should be able to keep the OS and applications completely segregated from each other."
That's what VM's are for.
Upgrade your hardware, upgrade your OS, install and configure the VM, copy some files, and you're running the legacy OS and application again.
Have you ever tried to run an FEA tool (say, Solidworks Flow Simulation) or a rendering tool (say, Modo) on a virtual machine? Bad idea.
Yes. VM's have their place. No. They don't solve the underlying problem for all application cases. As applications get more and more advanced and the need for performance increases VM's are simply not a viable option.
Serious rendering is farmed onto dedicated machines to which the author's argument has very little relevance.
Yeah sure, there are edge cases such as FEA which cannot be virtualized without dramatic losses in performance, but unlike the cherry picked examples, floating point operations are not the critical path for most applications.