On 07/06/2012 04:03 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Phong X Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
On 6 Jul 2012, at 1516, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
On my VM, W7 is still half as fast as XP and ten times less
stable -- pretty much matches what I see in the field.
And Lotus Approach, which I use for my business accounting,
runs worse on W7 than it runs on Wine.
Can I get more details about your issues? I routinely run Windows 7 in VMs
(generally VMWare) and get near-native speed for anything except GPU-bound
tasks. It's also rock-solid stable. So I'm curious about your problems you
mention you keep having.
My general experience (for a fairly broad spectrum of users) is for most
relatively-recent hardware (e.g. >2GB RAM, half-decent IGP, etc.) Windows 7 is
as-fast, faster and a lot more productive than XP (the last due to general UI
improvements).
Don't forget that Todd is using "dump" and "restore" for backup. I
find them.... grossly inefficient, and rely on separate cheap media
with "rsync" and "rsnapshot" for much faster, more efficient backups
and recommend them highly. If you need to preserve SELinux data,
Amanda or Zmanda with "star" also works well, and again, is much more
efficient than dump and restore.
$ df /dev/sda1
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 495844 134640 335604 29% /boot
I backup the above in 1 hr, 12 min. How are your numbers?
