VMware performance: physical partitions vs images?

[Technomage]

I am an experienced user of vmware products (both the server and workstation 
lines). using real partitions is definitely gives better performance over 
using "loop back image" partitions.

This situation is most noticeable when using only 128 MB of ram for the vmware 
instance and reserving the other 128 for the host system (which is what I run 
mac OS Darwin under here).. running the guest system "natively" is definitely 
far superior, but failing that, running a vmware guest OS using real hardware 
is 30-50% faster than via loopback.

TMH
 
On Saturday 09 September 2006 20:26, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> Has anybody here done benchmarks comparing vmware using physical
> partitions vs using file-based images?  I see a number of references
> that using physical partitions is faster (and that "feels" true), but I
> cannot find any performance testing showing just how much faster and in
> what ways.
>
> Kurt
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