On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... Expect performance of your entire machine to nose dive if you run the VMs > off the same physical disk as the host OS. > > Now, with that said... If you have room have a separate internal hard drive > dedicated to VMs. You'll reduce thrashing on your primary drive.
The thrashing issue had not occurred to me. I have a second drive in the box so will aim to locate the VMs there. Thank you. > Secondly, VMWare seems to play nicer with more USB devices "out of the box" > and Virtualbox (I give you the iPhone as example. Apparently works just fine > with VMWare but with VirtualBox 1.6.2 it will not install in a WinXP host). > I've used other USB devices without issue though. I can get relatively > flawless Quicktime playback (Apple movie trailers) with my VM > and a modern system. I've been experimenting with both VMware and Virtual Box and expect to work with both for experimental purposes , but with Virtual Box at least initiallly for the production VMs. That's mainly because I'm farther along in understanding Virtual Box quirks than VMWare. Hopefully, the production VMs will be lean enough on apps that there won't be major configuration barriers to replacing them with later builds of either VMware or Virtual Box. My impression is that the rapid improvement of both will continue. > If there is a moral to the story, something can and always will bite you in > the arse but it's becoming less and less these days. Yes, Murphy's Law in all its permutations still seems more immutable than the laws of Physics. :-) But retirement and studious avoidance of tasks with deadlines seems to have dramatically reduced the Law's impact. Thanks for the pointers, Mr. O. I've learned a lot in this conversation. Best regards, Paul -- Universal Interoperability Council <http:www.universal-interop-council.org> _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
