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So I in the end, I had two virtual machines installed:

- Windows Server 2003
- Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

I enabled autologin on the windows installation.

The official results?

I started the Jaunty virtual machine, pressed escape at grub to bring up the boot menus, then immediately hit enter and started a stopwatch at the same time.

How long did it take to boot to desktop from a default install? 32 seconds. Not bad!

Worryingly though... now for the Windows 2003 install.

Start the virtual machine, and immediately start the stopwatch. Discard one second for the bios screen and get.... 8 SECONDS TO DESKTOP!!

Why can we still not do this with Jaunty? :(

You may initially think well Jaunty includes a bunch of extra crap such as a ton of useless kernel modules but then so does Windows?!

How do we move forward from this? What is going wrong? How can I make Jaunty boot in *seconds* ? We need to beat windows boot time!

Regards,
Sean McRobbie