> I think I tried vmware player at one point and had absolutely dreadful > i/o performance, no idea if that is still the case. Virtualbox, see above ;) > No idea how well OpenBSD does in xen.
Yep, atrocious i/o performance in VMWare Player as of 4.0.2. This was before rthreads though, I don't think it would alter much after rthreads.