On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:40:37 -0700 Charlie Gibbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 19/06/18 04:00 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > FWIW: I run old XP in a VM now. Actually, it performs better than > > running it natively. > > You too? I also run XP in a VM, and file I/O is wonderfully fast. > Even though XP thinks it's working with NTFS, on the metal it's > actually a Linux file system (in my case ext4), and that gives it a > performance edge. Plus now XP runs better, snappier in the VM in Stretch than it did in Wheezy. Same box. Not a lot, but enough to notice. Was somewhat surprised with that. Wasn't a reinstall either. Just followed VirtualBox's instructions to transfer virtual drive, etc. from Wheezy to Stretch. No troubleshooting or tweaking needed. B
