[Vm-dev] linux ht cog vm
Tobias Pape
Das.Linux at gmx.de
Thu Apr 9 21:28:56 UTC 2015
On 09.04.2015, at 23:25, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>
> On 09.04.2015, at 23:14, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 11:14 PM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I have wondered, isn't there any other way to have the
>> ht cog vm run, _without_ instructing users to change
>> shady system config files? I can't ask my students
>> to do that, really…
>>
>> Why not? Their laptops are personal machines and if linux requires stupidities like restricting thread priorities through shady config files one can only bow to linux right?
>
> Nope. No dice.
> It has to be a 'double click experience' for all OSes.
> You can't imagine how
> "We got this nice software here you'll be working with the next semester
> but because we are such nice guys please change system files for us"
> sounds to students.
> We got enough trouble on the image side nonetheless :)
Don't get me wrong. I believe there's a very good reason to have
the limits changes, but I see no plausible way to convey this to
firstlings.
Best
-Tobias
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