On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> USB is slightly slower but not enough to matter, IMO. That's assuming > the drive inside has good performance and is not El Cheapo. > > Today's fastest desktop drives can sustain 100 MB/sec. High Speed USB > 2.0's speed of light is 60 MB/sec. But "typical use" doesn't use full > bandwidth often. Seek speed matters more, and that's effectively > equal for USB and SATA. Sounds workable to me. > Things that might not work on a guest VM: video playback, 3D, special > USB devices such as webcams, phones or cameras, switching monitor > resolution, multiple monitors. I'm a hardware junkie -- I always have > something in my configuration that the original developers didn't > think of. I'm the opposite, I guess. My only USB devices are the camera and a thumb drive. Both work on Virtual Box with a Kubuntu guest. Video playback works but I'm still wrestling with audio in video playback. However, those are largely recreational features for me. Nearly all my production needs are text based. Thanks for the short list. I think I'm going to go ahead and try it. Things are relatively slow for me in August so it's a good time for experimentation. I thank everyone for all the helpful advice. I'll report on how it goes. Best regards, Paul -- Universal Interoperability Council <http:www.universal-interop-council.org> _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
