VMWare Recommended MSR

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http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000714.html

a really really nice article

i quote:

[the] biggest performance win is to put the virtual hard disks on separate disk spindles from the operating system. The biggest performance hit in virtual machines is disk I/O. Making the VM fight with your OS and swap disk makes this issue much, much worse. Additionally, today's USB 2.0 and firewire external hard drives run on a fast interface bus, have large buffers and spin at 7,200 rpm, as opposed to 4,200 rpm for most laptop hard drives.

The primary performance bottleneck in virtual machines, by a very wide margin, is the hard drive.

sure i am gonna use the snapshot option
it is of the main reasons i will be using vmware
from the brief description i got from SirDice i think i will go for workstation
not too much for my needs and no too less

i think vmmachines will become really a mainstream
with quad cores and all that power .. besides gaming.. it will be good for vmwaring

well i think i will need a 2 GB Ram and an external HDD :P