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You are ignoring the context, which is that of a portable VM. 1. You obviously can't direct map local fixed drives, and direct access to USB drives yields the

by eps 10y ago

You are ignoring the context, which is that of a portable VM. 1. You obviously can't direct map local fixed drives, and direct access to USB drives yields the same 200-300 MBps read performance, which also has a lot of jitter. 2. To pass-through a GPU you need to be running an ESXi with all the consequences. In particular, moving a VM, while doable through export/import, becomes a royal pain in the ass. PS. And try and express your thoughts in a bit more civil manner next time.

ryanlol 10y ago
>1. You obviously can't direct map local fixed drives, and direct access to USB drives yields the same 200-300 MBps read performance, which also has a lot of jitter. Of course you can, and if you want to access the "host" OS just boot the drive in a VM and hope for the best. USB will be just as bad as it'd be without VMs. >2. To pass-through a GPU you need to be running an ESXi with all the consequences. In particular, moving a VM, while doable through export/import, becomes a royal pain in the ass. I think for this you'd probably just want to use a live distro with KVM rather than messing with ESXi. But yeah, it'll be significantly harder. It's a strange problem so you'll need something more configurable than vmware player. >PS. And try and express your thoughts in a bit more civil manner next time. I don't see anything offensive in my comment, unless I'm supposed to be offended by your "pain in the ass" wording.