jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon Sep 21 07:58:28 CDT 2009
Stuart, You are correct, you can set the VM up to expand as necessary. The advantage is that it can start small and get really big if needed. The disadvantage is that it is slow when expanding. Once expanded though it remains that size until it needs to expand again. If you set up a fixed size, it is always as fast as it will ever be but be unable to grow if need be. I set up mine as a fixed size, because my machines were performing a specific job and I knew what I needed. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Stuart McLachlan wrote: > VirtualBox can either allocate all the required disk space when you first set up a VM or > expand the image when required. > > I made the mistake of doing the first and then trying to benchmark building big tables in > Access in the VM. It turned out to be very slow. Creating the full sized disk up front > resulted in much better results. > > I suspect that VMWare and VPC will be the same. > > So if you are using the VM to create large record sets, it will certainly pay to allocate the full > space initially. > >