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Re:Humble Indie Bundle 9 released by bryanlarsen on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @04:30PM (#6369822)
The big problem with this strategy is that disk I/O in a Linux VM under Win7 seems to be about 1/10th of the speed that it is under native Linux.
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Re:Humble Indie Bundle 9 released by criley2 on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @05:10PM (#6370139)
I run my ubuntu VM off of a SSD. My VM performance is (unbenchmarked) seemingly faster than many laptops and netbooks running Ubuntu. It's blazing fast performance that I believe is better than most native Linux installs on spinning drives.

I don't have I/O benchmarks to back that up, just anecdotes from my usage, but I'd be shocked to find that my ubuntu VM was 10% of native performance.

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Re:Humble Indie Bundle 9 released by venomsnake on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @05:12PM (#6370149)
If you give access to real drive/partition it is native.
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