mikeiver1 wrote:
And why pray tell would one want to run NL in a virtual machine?
I just do not understand the propensity of users to want to take a well tuned and reliable OS/appliance application and hinder it's performance in this way. It would be like taking a Cisco router and setting it up to run windows as well.
Mike
Simple. Most home users don't want to have multiple PC's or servers for individual applications like NASLite, email, web server, security video, FTP... or whatever else is possible. Why not invest a single multi-core robust hardware platform and run ALL apps visualized on just one server? For me its a big problem solved... The only thing I'll concede is that I do not know how performance will compare. My old platform could manage about 24MB/s so that will be my benchmark. Considering I can now use RAID to stripe my physical drives into a single virtual drive I should have much higher I/O capability. That coupled with a 64bit stack should get me in the ballpark.
Of course, if my assumptions on performance and stability are wrong then I will stay with a standalone NASlite system. If Virtual Box proves unreliable I also have access to a VMware Sphere ESXi license that should be very solid, just more long term cost.