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Being that VMs usually have terrible disk I/O, I've found that it helps noticably to set the Windows host to increase the amount of memory it uses for the disk
by cdvonstinkpot 11y ago
Being that VMs usually have terrible disk I/O, I've found that it helps noticably to set the Windows host to increase the amount of memory it uses for the disk cache. There's the setting in 'My Computer" > 'Advanced', plus a little-known registry (or group policy- I don't recall off the top of my head) setting that increases it quite a bit more than the GUI-fied switch. You can find it on Google easily enough.
-my 2 cents
- brudgers 11y agoGiven the way Linux uses physical memory and swap space, pumping up the amount of RAM available to the VM might provide more fine grained control [1]. Since the implication is the developer will be primarily in the VM, constraining the physical memory available to Windows somewhat is less likely to impact performance particularly if Windows configuration is tailored to the usage scenario. [1] And RAM is cheap.