[OT] Dead video card

[Ian Wood]

On 17 Aug 2010, at 18:42, Bob Sneidar wrote:

> In fact, this was the reason that emulators like Virtual PC could never attain the performance on graphics intensive tasks that people needed. EVERYTHING graphics had to go through a translator. Nowadays, a lot of emulated tasks can access the processor directly with little or no translation, giving us the exceptional performance of emulators like VMWare and Parallels produces. 

Virtual PC was an emulator, trying to run an OS on a different type of processor. VMWare and Parallels are virtualisation programs with no emulation involved.

They do drastically different things under the hood, which is why the performance is so different.

Ian