Hyper-V On a Tablet!

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Patrick

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Finally was able to make it to the Microsoft Store today and got a Surface Pro. First thing I did after logging in: Install Hyper-V and reboot. Super excited about this feature! Too bad only 4GB of RAM.
 

Patrick

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Well... I'll be upgrading to a Haswell version in a few months I'm sure :)
 

Andreas

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Patrick, enjoy your SP.

"Only" 4GB?
How time has changed.

I do have a few VMs for backwards compatibility

MSDOS 6.0: 4 MB (the smallest size)
Win 3.1: 16 MB
Win 95: 64 MB
NT 3.1: 64 MB
NT 4: 128 MB
Win 98: 256 MB
Win ME: 256 MB
Win 2000: 258 MB
etc ...

I guess with proper sizing, you could run 10-12 of those VMs concurrently on your surface pro - even with NT enabled for multi processor ....
Kind of your datacenter of the 20th century on the go ...

Have fun,
Andy
 

Jeggs101

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Patrick, enjoy your SP.

"Only" 4GB?
How time has changed.

I do have a few VMs for backwards compatibility

MSDOS 6.0: 4 MB (the smallest size)
Win 3.1: 16 MB
Win 95: 64 MB
NT 3.1: 64 MB
NT 4: 128 MB
Win 98: 256 MB
Win ME: 256 MB
Win 2000: 258 MB
etc ...

I guess with proper sizing, you could run 10-12 of those VMs concurrently on your surface pro - even with NT enabled for multi processor ....
Kind of your datacenter of the 20th century on the go ...

Have fun,
Andy
Wow! What do you run with DOS?

IOPS of a mobile SSD are probably > a Win 2000 era supercomputer's storage.
 

Andreas

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Wow! What do you run with DOS?
Just for fun.

I started Turbo Pascal and fortunately most of the compiler, editor, library and executable fits into L1 cache of contemporary CPUs. A while ago I benchmarked my old programs and the speedup was approx a factor of 3000 (vs. a 4,77 MHz IBM PC).

Unfortunately, MS-DOS doesn't support multicore, multisockets and NUMA. Should check if can find a recent patch to fix this.... ;)

My dual-Sandy box has 1 MB of L1 cache, so the access time to the 640KB memory of the 8086 address range would be decent.
And it would offer 8087 support.Hopefully faster than the original 50 kflops. (NB: Linpack reported 335 GFlop/s)
And 4 of the 5 MB of the original IBM hard disk would fit into the L2 caches - fixing any potential I/O bottleneck
A few years later my PC got a 40 MB harddisk (with 32 MB filesystem limits). Would fit in L3 cache. A bit slower than the 5 MB disk, but still ok ....

.... memories ....

Andy
 

Biren78

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Question - how is the SPro? Was looking at getting one for this reason. Mobile HV lab.

What size SSD? How much RAM for HV? Doubt its much since you need to run Win8 too.