page 211 of samba 3 by example.pdf has instructions on how to redirect
folders using registry changes. you can easily redirect my documents by
right clicking on it and changing the target. i don't save files to my
desktop because that just results in a cluttered desktop and large
roaming profiles. No I don't think VMWare will run much slower than it
is now. In testing on my Poweredge servers, desktop PCs, etc, it seems
in my experience that hard drives max out at reads/writes of 25
megabytes a second, and even 100megabit transfers about 12 megabytes a
second on a switched network. I'd probably try a test, take a user,
redirect my documents to a folder on the server, put the VM in it, and
run it, and see how it affects your performance, you may not notice
anything different. I ran Windows XP and Fedora 8 on Microsoft Virtual
PC in a test environment on my 100 megabit notebook PC with the VMs
stored on a shared drive on a file server and I didn't notice much of a
difference as running an operating system locally.
Jonathan Bougher wrote:
The VM is being saved to the Desktop, within a folder (or multiple
folders if the user puts it there)
If I redirect My Docs, and the VM files are there - Then won't VMware
run much more slowly trying to access this stuff across the network
when the user wants to run the VM? Profile loading/saving would speed
up, but overall performance would be impacted negatively I think
Thanks for the reply, I will look into it further - do you have any
thoughts about what I stated above?
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