On 17/05/12 19:37, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 05/17/2012 05:16 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
I think that what you are really talking here is about installing VB with the DYNAMIC option for space allocation. Doing this has the price of less than perfect performance as there is an overhead in trying to ensure that the disc space keeps growing to accommodate additional data - until at least when the VMs are stabilised.
I want to avoid this by simply assigning enough disc space to cover all my current and potential needs. And doing so I also have a clear idea of how much space I would need on an external HDD to do backups of the VMs.
Am I wrong in my thinking? I don't know if you are wrong.
All I can say is that I've always used Dynamic allocation....but what I do with my VMs isn't I/O intensive. So, I've not noticed any performance issues. Ah, OK. I was only stating this from what is pointed out in the Manual for VB.
So, maybe using the Dynamic allocation may be the way to go. May solve thinking about how much space to allocate to VB at the beginning :-) . BC -- Using openSUSE 12.1 x86_64 KDE on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org