On Tuesday 04 December 2007 07:32, Eberhard Roloff wrote: > Jc Polanycia wrote: > > I've been following this thread and have a question. Why are you > > running your VMWare instances on raw partitions versus image files > > on a filesystem? > > -to use existing installations? > -to use an already existing windows without the need to either > install again or do a p2v ? > -to drastically increase vmware machines' "harddisk" performance? > -because it is possible to do so?
I concur. I have a separate physical drive for my VMware guest (Windows XP) and don't want to impose the non-negligible overhead of using virtual (host file-backed) disk drives. Depending on circumstances, I would make different choices, of course, but when raw performance is a concern (and face it Windows ain't generally snappy to begin with), physical drive access is called for. > > We use VMWare a bit over here and found that using image files > > gives us more flexibility in with our VMs(portable, easily > > duplicatable). > > sure. But there is also the reverse side of the coin. Exactly. It's a tradeoff. As with most engineering / technical decisions, it can't be made mindlessly, unless you like to live on luck. > regards > EbR Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
