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Has anyone tried to run CS2 under VMware on a high-end machine?
I’m part of an organization that runs lots of training sessions. We have a nice room with a good PC and a video projector and screen. We teach Photoshop [1] at a fairly high level. Everything else is lightweight in comparison.
We’re due for an upgrade to our training machine, and we have an on-going problem with different groups stepping on each other on a shared machine.
I’ve been pushing the idea for using a VM for each class. This would be on a dual-core machine with as much memory as needed, etc. We don’t have an unlimited budget but I argure that one big machine is cheaper than a couple mid-level machines.
Don’t laugh at VM unless you’ve worked with it. For pure CPU operations it’s about 99% efficient because the VM code doen’t get in the way unless there are calls to the OS.
We intentionally use modest-sized images for training purposes. Be need speed to make good use of class time, not for impressive results.
[1] http://www.hookbuilt.com/nypc/photoshop_sig.html
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a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m
Don’t blame me. I voted for Gore.
I’m part of an organization that runs lots of training sessions. We have a nice room with a good PC and a video projector and screen. We teach Photoshop [1] at a fairly high level. Everything else is lightweight in comparison.
We’re due for an upgrade to our training machine, and we have an on-going problem with different groups stepping on each other on a shared machine.
I’ve been pushing the idea for using a VM for each class. This would be on a dual-core machine with as much memory as needed, etc. We don’t have an unlimited budget but I argure that one big machine is cheaper than a couple mid-level machines.
Don’t laugh at VM unless you’ve worked with it. For pure CPU operations it’s about 99% efficient because the VM code doen’t get in the way unless there are calls to the OS.
We intentionally use modest-sized images for training purposes. Be need speed to make good use of class time, not for impressive results.
[1] http://www.hookbuilt.com/nypc/photoshop_sig.html
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a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m
Don’t blame me. I voted for Gore.
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