Hey, what's up everyone.
I was curious if I could run two OS's at the same time. As in running one OS on one hard drive(W7) and then running another OS (Ubuntu 11.10 server) on the second hard drive. Wanting to use them side by side, nothing virtually. Can a computer split up the resources for that?
If it cannot do that, I'm then wanting to know what performance difference there is between actually running Ubuntu and running it virtually on W7?
If there really is no performance difference, then would running a server that way work well? With the server I'm wanting to stream media off it, to about four or so other friends. I would be using it with subsonic. I know I can run subsonic on windows, but the only reason why I want windows running is because I play games like BF3. I would prefer using Ubuntu all the time though, and windows just for games.
Dual boot would not work for this because I don't want my server going offline. I do have my old parts that I was building this whole server for, but running a server 24/7 also on older parts(well from 2007), makes the electricity bill a little bit higher lol. Though I did go to the Ubuntu forums and asked if I could run the server on my Main Rig, and then when I want to play games, turn my server rig on and have that run the server while I use W7 for gaming. I'm talking about doing this with the OS's on two different HDD's in one case. The guy who responded told me how to do it with high performance (streaming it to friends and what not). But I just want to know what I'd need to do to just hook something up like that.
I hope I posted this in the right spot, wasn't too sure where to put this lol.
I was curious if I could run two OS's at the same time. As in running one OS on one hard drive(W7) and then running another OS (Ubuntu 11.10 server) on the second hard drive. Wanting to use them side by side, nothing virtually. Can a computer split up the resources for that?
If it cannot do that, I'm then wanting to know what performance difference there is between actually running Ubuntu and running it virtually on W7?
If there really is no performance difference, then would running a server that way work well? With the server I'm wanting to stream media off it, to about four or so other friends. I would be using it with subsonic. I know I can run subsonic on windows, but the only reason why I want windows running is because I play games like BF3. I would prefer using Ubuntu all the time though, and windows just for games.
Dual boot would not work for this because I don't want my server going offline. I do have my old parts that I was building this whole server for, but running a server 24/7 also on older parts(well from 2007), makes the electricity bill a little bit higher lol. Though I did go to the Ubuntu forums and asked if I could run the server on my Main Rig, and then when I want to play games, turn my server rig on and have that run the server while I use W7 for gaming. I'm talking about doing this with the OS's on two different HDD's in one case. The guy who responded told me how to do it with high performance (streaming it to friends and what not). But I just want to know what I'd need to do to just hook something up like that.
I hope I posted this in the right spot, wasn't too sure where to put this lol.