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?