[ale] Using existing Windows partition in vmware

[Jonathan Rickman]

On Tuesday 02 December 2003 10:10, Dow Hurst wrote:
> That is amazing!  So it must provide the driver set for its virtual
> hardware but use the actual install.  Weird.  I'll have to look into
> this.  Does it perform better than a normal virtual machine?

Depends on RAM. If you have a lot and can allocate at least 512 to the 
guest and still have enough to spare on the host for decent caching, I 
find that plain disks (pre-allocated virtual disks) perform better than 
raw disks in many cases. It really depends on what you are using it for. 
I suspect that on most systems with less than 1GB or RAM, the raw disk 
guest will perform better though.

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Jonathan Rickman
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