[NBLUG/talk] Linux setup help

[Jordan Erickson]

Storage medium is kind of a moot point when it comes to guest vs host OS
performance. Ubuntu would more likely run slow for reasons other than
it's on a modern spinning platter hard disk....maybe all of that Unity I
hear about...I dunno. Something about Mark Shuttleworth and a trip he
had to Jamaica I think ;)



On 06/19/2013 04:07 PM, Zack Gold wrote:
> But isn't that how VirtualBox stores the virtual machines? Through a
> single file? The bottleneck of a single file's capabilities to be
> processed is based on the specifications of the device that stores
> that one single file. The CPU is involved in processing the data, but
> the device that manages the file needs to be able to read and write
> quickly.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Jordan Erickson
> <jerickson at logicalnetworking.net
> <mailto:jerickson at logicalnetworking.net>> wrote:
>
>     I don't really agree with that, but definitely agree that using an SSD
>     for your OS partitions will increase the overall speed of your system
>     (VM or not).
>
>     IMHO virtualization bottlenecks would most likely come from your
>     CPU not
>     having the VT instruction set available (or turned on in the BIOS)
>     and/or lack of memory to run them...though if it's a Win8 laptop, I
>     would *hope* they would have a whole lot of ram ;)
>
>     What you *should* do is have Linux as your host OS and virtualize
>     Windows 8......dot dot dot
>
>
>     Cheers,
>     Jordan
>
>
>     On 06/19/2013 02:38 PM, Zack Gold wrote:
>     > If Ubuntu runs slow on your new laptop, it'll probably be caused
>     by a
>     > bottleneck in hard drive resources. Another suggestion might be
>     to buy
>     > a solid-state drive, since a virtual machine is going to be
>     > inconveniently slow if your laptop is running off a hard drive disk.
>     >
>     >
>     *snip*
>
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