Need some answers about VMPlayer usage
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 11:52 am
Background
Making system images is a good thing but hardware tends to break after some time. So if you have to replace your motherboard then you images hasn't much value anymore. This made me think about running home automation in a virtual machine enviroment making it hardware independend. Another option would be buying 5 motherboards at once (and related hardware) and prolonge this situation as long as possible.
What do i have/need
I have a small energy efficient pc running 1.5 GHz Atom quad core with 2 Gb memory, Window 7 as operating system. The machine need to have 1 parallel port and 1 serieel port (this one has those two). The parallel port is used to control a home build whole house audiosystem en the serieel port for my home build whole house VR system. On this hardware my system runs nicely, smooth and stable so this will be the state that i can live by the next few decades.
Where am i now
I've installed VMPlayer on my HA server and it's running Win7 and all other software. Haven't had the change to test the serieel and parallel connections because they are in use. The whole process of installing (120 win updates) and such took me a few days to complete and i made a backup of this virtual machine. All in all my first impression is that the virtual machine is rather unresponsive and slow.
What do i want to know
- The machine got 4 cores. When i run VMPlayer i assign 2 to the virtual OS. Is this the right way to do?
- Same with memory. I got 2 Gb and i assign half to the VM.
- What is the preferred way of running the machine in such way that you only have 1 VM running to serve for home automation?
- Is this hardware enough to run a VM reliable? Only the VM, nothing else) or do i need better specs
- If i need better specs wouldn't that kill the low energy consumption?
- Are there any cavcats that i need to know or best practices?
Thanks for all the input.
Bram
Making system images is a good thing but hardware tends to break after some time. So if you have to replace your motherboard then you images hasn't much value anymore. This made me think about running home automation in a virtual machine enviroment making it hardware independend. Another option would be buying 5 motherboards at once (and related hardware) and prolonge this situation as long as possible.
What do i have/need
I have a small energy efficient pc running 1.5 GHz Atom quad core with 2 Gb memory, Window 7 as operating system. The machine need to have 1 parallel port and 1 serieel port (this one has those two). The parallel port is used to control a home build whole house audiosystem en the serieel port for my home build whole house VR system. On this hardware my system runs nicely, smooth and stable so this will be the state that i can live by the next few decades.
Where am i now
I've installed VMPlayer on my HA server and it's running Win7 and all other software. Haven't had the change to test the serieel and parallel connections because they are in use. The whole process of installing (120 win updates) and such took me a few days to complete and i made a backup of this virtual machine. All in all my first impression is that the virtual machine is rather unresponsive and slow.
What do i want to know
- The machine got 4 cores. When i run VMPlayer i assign 2 to the virtual OS. Is this the right way to do?
- Same with memory. I got 2 Gb and i assign half to the VM.
- What is the preferred way of running the machine in such way that you only have 1 VM running to serve for home automation?
- Is this hardware enough to run a VM reliable? Only the VM, nothing else) or do i need better specs
- If i need better specs wouldn't that kill the low energy consumption?
- Are there any cavcats that i need to know or best practices?
Thanks for all the input.
Bram