Comment by runako

5 months ago

Back in the Windows XP days, I discovered that running Windows in a VMWare VM, hosted on Linux, was faster than running the same version of Windows bare on the same machine.

I never came up with a good explanation for that.

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userbinator  5 months ago

Cache.

Disk cache, to be precise.

  • AbuAssar  5 months ago

    please elaborate

    • vanderZwan  5 months ago

      I am guessing that they're implying that a VM effectively loaded the "hard drive" that Windows uses into a RAM-disk, so one would be comparing loading dlls and whatnot from RAM vs loading it from spinning rust.

      I'm not sure how true that is, because in the Windows XP days most of us wouldn't have had enough RAM to spare to do that.

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