15 Oct 2016, 11:32 am
i'm about to drive on over ten miles of open road for the third time
i really hope i survive 
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15 Oct 2016, 12:38 pm
Nothing, really.
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15 Oct 2016, 4:16 pm
I hate computers when they don't,
I hate it when you have a cluster F of code for virtualization and various lines of code that sporadically work, you can get into the Windows 7 install DVD with some code, with some other lines of code it'll hang at title screen and with even more lines of code you can get the actual OS to boot. Here is the catch, none of the code wants to play nice with one another and I not intelligent enough to know what every little thing does though I have a good idea. So its a cluster F, I fix A and I make B ten times worse. This is why I am not a programmer, I hope I am not stuck with Windows 10 on Qemu. I am surprised Windows 7 runs like this with Qemu, I guess I'll have to try Xen. Is there is no way to virtualize Windows with PCI Passthrough without having a large hosts of problems?
Ugh, I bet that makes no sense to anyone. At least with the amount of time I typed this, Windows 7 has probably booted into its install media which for some reason takes two hours. Why? Who knows but I am sure it has to do with the mountain code I have trying to get this thing working.
That only took two freaking days to do,
Virtual Windows 10 with PCI Passthrough = Horrible sound
Virtual Windows 7 with PCI Passthrough = An inability to use more then one core
Solution to Windows 10 sound problem is route sound through the video card in MSI mode.
Solution to Windows 7 multithreading issue is to downgrade the kernel.
Windows 7's audio in Qemu seems to work without MSI mode but I haven't loaded up a game yet.
15 Oct 2016, 6:17 pm
I had a *great* day out today.
I've found a group on Facebook where a lot of members post everything in detail. 
My kind of thinking. And there isn't a single troll or (judgemental) know-it-all on there. Everybody just helps each other out. The owner really puts effort into his group, it's chock full of information. He saved me a fortune too, I dunno if he knows how grateful I am. I told him, anyway.
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15 Oct 2016, 6:23 pm
15 Oct 2016, 6:51 pm
listening to talk radio, they are discussing wifi-dependant smoke detectors
wifi
dependant
smoke detectors
then the wifi goes out and your house burns down 
15 Oct 2016, 7:12 pm
DCJ, sure you're not ready to make one of those destruction videos with your computer after two days? 
Why did you deal with all those virtualization headaches anyway? Also, is there a difference between emulation and virtualization?
15 Oct 2016, 7:41 pm
15 Oct 2016, 7:43 pm
Well my virtual Windows 10 crapped out on me after the new Windows 10 update and my old Linux install had a few bugs that the easiest fix was to reinstall Arch Linux. The goal was to use a virtual Windows 7 over Windows 10 and to fix Arch Linux and to downsize how many packages I had installed. The end result seems fine, there are a few things to iron out but I like it much better then my last install. I think it'll be fine.
To be a Linux purist and because I love Arch Linux and hate Windows. It allows me to play anything that was meant for Windows on Linux. So I can be Arch Linux user and do some Doom 4 in my spare time. Also so I can use my gaming rigs power, which more then enough for most games, for tasks over the network. I can use my gaming rig as a data server and a gaming rig at the same time. With isolated cores I can even do more stuff while gaming.
Emulation and virtualization are both virtual environments and the difference is kind of dependent on context. In typical use, emulators recreate things on a chip set level, meaning its emulating hardware. Virtualization is more or less the same but in the context of a hypervisors and virtual machines, it rarely emulates things to such a precise hardware level. Thus things like PCI Passthrough, you are passing through real hardware to the virtual environment. Emulation is generally refers to different architecture, I don't have to emulate a processor in a virtual machine as the software I am vrtualizating is already programmed to run on the computer anyway. That is not always true with emulation so emulation is kind of different in that regard.
15 Oct 2016, 7:46 pm
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15 Oct 2016, 10:21 pm
Hmm.. How do you say something directly without being harsh?
15 Oct 2016, 10:25 pm
You do as best as you can to illustrate your emotional content in the most meaningful way without the possibility of coming off as harsh. Mind you nothing is perfect, let do what you feel is the most beneficial means of expressing yourself.
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