Gustin Johnson wrote: > A poor mans snapshot is simply making a physical copy of the VMs > directory. This can be cumbersome to work with, as well as taking up > tons of disk space.
I've actually found that VMs are uber-compressible. I don't think I've ever seen less than 50% compression and frequently more. Granted I generally work with small VMs as I try to keep the data separate out on the metal, but most of my VMs are under a GB when gzipped. J -- Key fingerprint: BDE0 DE52 B8C0 0CDF 7653 E5A2 D861 7877 0D3B 813E http://www.jonwatson.ca +1.403.770.2837 "Trying to learn to hack on a DOS or Windows machine or under MacOS is like trying to learn to dance while wearing a body cast" - ESR _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
