On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Johnny <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jarpublic@gmail.com">jarpublic@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> Has anyone tried running a Windows VM on their Zotac ION Atom 230 in order<br>
> to use Netflix streaming? I'm about to purchase a new frontend, but would<br>
> like to know if people are running the NetFlix streamer on such a low-end<br>
> CPU.<br>
<br>
</div></div>I doubt it. I don't think that Intel puts their virtualization support<br>
into the Atom chips. Also from the reviews I have read it seems like<br>
the Atom was barely able to keep up with decent bitrate Flash video<br>
from sites like Hulu. In a VM you won't have any hardware acceleration<br>
and you will be eating up extra CPU cycles. Somebody would have<br>
actually test it to be sure, but I would be really surprised if you<br>
got acceptable performance.<br></blockquote><div><br>I guess I would need to use dual-boot on this system since I understand the Atom + 9400M works well for NetFlix while running Windows natively with NVidia's binary drivers. I'm actually thinking of going the AoE-boot route for Windows and standard PXE-boot for Linux.<br>
<br><a href="http://etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/winxp">http://etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/winxp</a><br><br>Has anyone on the list successfully used the method documented at the above link?<br><br>/Brian/<br><br></div></div>