interesting. Not had an opportunity to use Win 7 extensively. but I have no Virtual Memory in my Host. Dont need it with 8GB so it eliminates the page swap issue. I also have my Virtual machines set to only use Real ram, so no page swapping there. My VMWare machines very little loss of improvement over running on a real computer in this setup.
The new Virtual machines running on solid states are faster than any normal computer I've ever experienced. Of course.. it would go better running delphi on the host in the same config, but I like VM's On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 11:36 AM, John Bird <johnkb...@paradise.net.nz> wrote: > ?Sort of similar config, except 32bit Windows 7 with 4GB Ram, and a VMware > XP with D2007 and 1GB allocated. > > I find the performance of the VMWare virtual PC the worst aspect of it - the > XP virtual machine is really prone to triggering intense disk writes - which > looks like Windows XP starting swapping in the virtual PC, and resuming and > suspending the virtual PC gives about 3 minutes of solid disk activity that > kills the PC until finished. It almost looks like the virtual hard disk > file is getting rewritten, and this triggers some kind of issue in the > Windows 7 - the Windows 7 Resource Monitor shows the disk writes look to be > to do with the VM hard disk file and the Windows 7 system volume > information. > > Anyone have any tips how this can be tuned better? > > Most of the time its not Windows 7 running out of memory, as I keep an eye > on this. > > Also have to say that both the VM and Windows 7 have D2007 installed and the > performance of D2007 under Windows 7 native is much better - eg in the VM > there is often a delay on hitting F9 before any compilation starts > happening. Should I be allocating more than 1GB, even though most of the > time D2007 does not seem to use more than 200-300MB memory ? > > John > > > for the last 2 years I've been using Vista 64 bit Quad Core with 8GB > Ram, and Normal reasonably fast HDD's > I run Delphi inside a VMware machine running XP 32bit, with 1.5GB ram > allocated. > > doing a full build of my main app is 953000 lines or so and takes > 80seconds or so.. > > > Just got a new machine with windows 7, running the Same virtual > machine. but the Win 7 is using only solid state drives. 100GB and > 220GB > > Doing a full build is only 11 seconds.. > > Worth the money? Very much so.. Time savings over a day is quite large > with the overall improvements > > > -- > Kyley Harris > Harris Software > +64-21-671-821 > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe > -- Kyley Harris Harris Software +64-21-671-821 _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
