VMware performance: physical partitions vs images?

[Brock]

On 2006.09.10.14.49, Kurt Granroth wrote:
| I ran the tests within VMware on a (pre-allocated) vmware image, a
| physical partition, and on then on the Host system on the same physical
| partition.  The most notable result of the tests is how similar they all
| are!  I was expecting the physical partition to run away with the tests
| but that wasn't the case at all.

I wonder if a dynamic image (instead of pre-allocated) is where the
performance falls off....

--Brock