On Wednesday, August 27, 2014, Volker Braun <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 8:00:49 PM UTC+1, Travis Scrimshaw wrote:
>>
>> But running the VM surely has a speed penalty because it has to go
>>> through that big fat layer of the VM?
>>>
>>
> Virtual machines are extremely fast on somewhat-recent hardware due to
> hardware support. Using the gui inside the VM is somewhat slow since it has
> to go through the graphics emulation, but if you connect with the OS
> browser its probably difficult to notice any speed difference.
>
> Of course the VM can't be much smaller than this if you want to be able to
> develop inside it:
>
> $ du -sh Sage/
> 5.2G Sage/
>
>
One remark: that gets knocked almost in half if you use a compressed
filesystem (btrfs or ZFS) like I do with SageMathCloud...



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