[GLLUG] How can a VM be faster than raw hardware?

[John Winters]

On 09/12/12 17:44, Alain Williams wrote:
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> Buffer cache on the host machine ?

So on real hardware the DB engine could be flushing to disk, whilst in 
the VM, the host is fibbing that the disk write has completed when it 
hasn't?

John