Maybe I am off base with this one, but the research I did a while back stated that the biggest bottleneck to vm performance was disk io conflicts.
I.e. if your vm lives on the same hd as your os and your programs they are all competing to read and write at the same time. Having a separate hd, internal or external solves that problem. (i have an external 7200 rpm firewire drive). I'll have to look up the articles that discussed this. Mark. Sent from my mobile device On 4 Aug 2010 04:39, "Dave Watts" <dwa...@figleaf.com> wrote: > >> On another note - if you want the best performance out of your vms, put them >> on an external hd, the faster the better, with the fastest connection as >> well. > > Yikes! I'm sorry, but this is overall terrible advice unless you > happen to have external eSATA or something along those lines. Most > people have external drives using USB 2, and running VMs from that > will be exponentially slower. I haven't tried USB 3 yet, but no matter > what it's not going to match the performance from running them > onboard. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > http://training.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on > GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:335990 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
