On Mar 19, 2011, at 7:49 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:58:59 +0000 > Kevin Chadwick wrote: > >> I do get a fair increase in cpu usage for a disk at full speed disk with >> vnd but it's acceptable. Have people already done cpu usage and >> transfer speed comparisons to save me further tests. > > Well I was about to run a comparison test on vmware and I'm well > confused unless it's a strange vmware bug or maybe the dynamic size disk > mechanism. I might have to pull out a box.
Why do people do this? when you're running more than one OS at a time, there's no way to control what's running on the other system(s) and interfering with the process you're testing. or what vmware subsystem is thrashing around and creating overhead.
