In my experience, if you're going to use either VMware Workstation or VMware Fusion or VirtualBox then you really shouldn't bother with raw disk access. It's a pain to configure and if you make a mistake then you can destroy things like your operating system. As long as you have sufficient RAM to cache disk I/O on the host the performance overhead is going to be negligible compared to the overhead incurred by the user-mode hypervisors. And if that performance hit is unacceptable then you shouldn't be virtualizing in the first place.
-- Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
