Piotr Jasiukajtis schrieb: > Hi, > > How can I improve performance of Windows XP / Windows Server 2003 > using .vmdk files? > > The guests are extremely slow on .vmdk files instead of raw zvols. > This is normal, the problem is, especially when you use sparse files, that the data is fragmented on disk, even more the additional layers of the file system and management slowing the hole wheel down. So it is best to use raw devices, they normally achieve nearly normal disk performance.
Florian
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