Performance in Virtual Machines.

willhub

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I need to do a comparison between Vista, XP and Windows 7, but I dont want to have to mess with my partitions so I want to use VMware since I am only going to be evaluating the OS's for a specific purpose.

What I want to know is, is the performance in a VM reflective to that you get on a machine, for example if Vista is 25% slower than Windows 7 in certain benchmarks, will this show when running the OS in a VM. I'll be limiting the ram to 2GB for the VM.

For it to be accurate will I need to have as little running on the Host OS and only have one VM running at any given time?

Or is the only way to install the OS's onto a partition and run it properly? I'm guessing using VM's will reflect which uses the less resources though?



Thanks
Will.
 
benchmarking in a VM is pointless, especially if you want to compare etc..

i'd just put a spare hard drive in and use that
 
Yea, I think it might come in use still, maybe I can get all performance figured for Vista Vs Windows 7 and Windows XP Vs Vista from the internet, I can use the VM to look at the features and also analyse memory useage.

This is for thr assignment, which IMO for me is easier than most of the class as I've been using Windows 7 for a good 3 months now :D
 
in an assignment you've got to compare W7 performance with Vista?

that's daft as W7 isn't RTM... :confused:
 
Considering that Windows 7 is only a beta and not released so that the general public can legally get hold of it anymore it is a pretty stupid assignment. The RTM version may well be different in performance terms anyway...
 
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