On 07/06/2012 04:03 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Phong X Nguyen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On 6 Jul 2012, at 1516, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>
>>> On my VM, W7 is still half as fast as XP and ten times less
>>> stable -- pretty much matches what I see in the field.
>>> And Lotus Approach, which I use for my business accounting,
>>> runs worse on W7 than it runs on Wine.
>>>
>> Can I get more details about your issues? I routinely run Windows 7 in VMs (generally VMWare) and get near-native speed for anything except GPU-bound tasks. It's also rock-solid stable. So I'm curious about your problems you mention you keep having.
>>
>> My general experience (for a fairly broad spectrum of users) is for most relatively-recent hardware (e.g. >2GB RAM, half-decent IGP, etc.) Windows 7 is as-fast, faster and a lot more productive than XP (the last due to general UI improvements).
>
> Don't forget that Todd is using "dump" and "restore" for backup. I
> find them.... grossly inefficient, and rely on separate cheap media
> with "rsync" and "rsnapshot" for much faster, more efficient backups
> and recommend them highly. If you need to preserve SELinux data,
> Amanda or Zmanda with "star" also works well, and again, is much more
> efficient than dump and restore.
>


$ df /dev/sda1
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1               495844    134640    335604  29% /boot

I backup the above in 1 hr, 12 min.  How are your numbers?