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From: Enda McGee on 5 May 2010 13:28
is there truth to the rumour that Matlab will not work on a VMware platform ?
From: Dan Smith on 26 May 2010 18:33
"Enda McGee" <emcgee(a)bloomberg.net> wrote in message <hrs9r4$4eq$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> is there truth to the rumour that Matlab will not work on a VMware platform ?

I get an application error in VMworkstation running XP when I start Matlab R2010a (The application failed to initialize (0xc00000005). Click on OK to terminate the application.) Matlab starts correctly on this platform if I use the -nojvm switch.
From: Mark on 22 Jun 2010 20:19
"Enda McGee" <emcgee(a)bloomberg.net> wrote in message <hrs9r4$4eq$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> is there truth to the rumour that Matlab will not work on a VMware platform ?


Matlab will run on a VMWare platform. I successfully use it on ESX Server 4.0 hosted Windows VMs. This is version r2009a but I don't think it should matter. One issue is performance. Matlab doesn't seem to be getting it's optimal hardware access due to the virtualisation and I'm seeing around a 40% slowdown from bare-iron Xeon 55xx hardware to a machine virtualised on an identical host. Hyper-threading obviously gets lost and the CPU to Memory access is probably not so good. Apparently normal tasks typically see a 10% virtualisation overhead.
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