[Gllug] Quad Core Desktop Motherboard

[Peter Corlett]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:31:43AM +0000, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Peter Corlett wrote:
[...]
>> It's as slow as a dead snail, working for the council, on strike, nailed
>> to the floor, and stuck in molasses in January.
> My home games PC runs vmware very well indeed.  Perhaps you just have 
> rubbish hardware, or a mac.

"But I repeat myself" :)

Did you bother to read the second paragraph?

I find VMWare's disk performance to be particularly awful, which makes it
quite unsutable for doing anything that's I/O-bound. Even on a nice machine.
Meanwhile, Xen runs quite acceptably on rubbish hardware.

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