[Tfug] battery life, power management and windows vs linux

[Shawn Nock]

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Jeremy D Rogers wrote:
> 
> Wine: No, Zemax requires a usb hardware key (and accompanying daemon
> software) to run which is not possible under wine.
> 
> Qemu: Yes, Zemax will run on Qemu, but I still need to install windows
> under qemu, and the install disk for my new laptop will take a couple
> more days to get here. I also have some high end usb2 camera's with
> thermoelectric coolers that I don't think will even work in qemu
> because they require some heap big usb bandwidth. But that won't stop
> me from trying. :-)

How about VMWare or Xen... both virtualize Windows and allow character
and block device pass-through (e.g. connecting the USB directly to the
windows instance. Last I checked both Xen and VMWare are a heck of a lot
faster than Qemu.

Link:
Users running Zemax under VMWare report 80% native speed.
http://www.zemax.com/kb/articles/41/5/What-Computer-Should-I-Buy-to-Run-ZEMAX/Page5.html


0.02USD,

Shawn
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Shawn Nock (OpenPGP: 0xB64200E1)
Unix Systems Group; CCIT
University of Arizona
nock at email.arizona.edu
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