a question about bootcamp and virtual systems?

[SooTyLaD]

hey guys...

talking about running XP (or vista) on my macbook, obviously the fastest i will get it to run is natively in bootcamp, but which is faster out of a) a purely virtual install and b) a bootcamp install being ran as a virtual OS?

is it the same or is the bootcamp install maybe faster?

 

[SooTyLaD]

if you do use a bootcamp partition as a virtual os, i assume you can't do all the snapshot stuff?

also, does anyonebody have any tips on increasing the performance of a virtual install? maybe running it from a separate (external) physical drive or something?