Wha?? KBob *IS* a local hardware guru... and he uses USB to boot linux if I've been following this thread correctly... What I have assimilated from this is that USB support for virtual machines is the problematic area.
~ben On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The local gurus claim the USB code in Linux kernel isn't written > well enough to be used as a main disk replacement. Unreliable. > It deadlocks. YMMV > -- > Allen Brown > http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown > >> Sorry for the late reply. Our DSL line was down for five days. >> >> marbux wrote: >> >>> Are read/write speeds comparable? I have a vague recollection of >>> someone saying USB hard drives suffer from lower data transfer rates. >> >> 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. >> >>> I'd appreciate a short list of major losses in functionality. Running >>> Kubuntu Hardy on Virtual Box/WinXP has worked for me thus far, but I >>> haven't tried everything I might want to do and wouldn't want to box >>> myself in too tightly. And my fantasy is to in effect swap what is >>> host and what is guest. >> >> 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. >> >> -- >> Bob Miller K<bob> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
