Is using a Virtual PC on a RAM DISK super fast? (putting the .vhd file in a RAM DISK)
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I wonder how or if any one tried to create a RAM DISK, and then put the 2GB (or sometimes 1.2GB) .vhd file into it, and then run the virtual PC using this image. It should be running super fast, as the hard disk is now simulated by RAM... I never tried but saw that there is tmpfs on Linux. So with …
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It's debatable. Performance will indeed increase considerably. But if you have enough RAM to create a RAM Disk capable of storing a whole image, know that both VirtualBox, VMWare and VirtualPC are capable of caching your images as data is accessed. …
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