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[Sandy Drobic <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> On 2009-06-02 15:39:24 +0800 Sandy Drobic <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> > > When talking about using a block device for hard disk image for
> > > virtual machine, Boyd said:
> > >
> > > > However, this may or may not actually increase your performance,
> > > > depending on the virtualization software.  If they use the same
> > > > techniques as the kernel uses for swap files, the performance
> > > > increase is tremendously minimal.
> > > do people know a virtual machine software that can improve performance
> > > by making use of a separate harddisk instead of a disk image?
> >
> > Yes, VMWare definitely needs physical disks when you desire any kind of
> > performant disk I/O. We had some severe performance problems when we
> > virtualized our fileserver. This could only be solved when we used
> > physical
> > drives for the shares. The same went for our domino servers.
>
> Thank you very much for this important information. I am aware this
> would require vm workstation. However I only purchased VM workstation
> 4.0 4 years ago. I am not sure if VM workstation 4 can prepare the
> physical harddisk for this purpose. I know this is even more OT here but
> if you just happen to know...
>
> Say, if the possibility to use physical harddisk is added only after vm
> workstation 5 then I have to spent more $$$
Actually, even the free server version is able to use a physical raw device,
at least the server 1 version.

Currently we are working with VMWare Infrastructure which is a completely
different kind of beast.

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