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>>>> OTOH, last time I tried to set up a virtual machine, it took two days
>>>> just to install Windows XP and update to service pack 3. That's quite
>>>> absurdly slow...
>>> You need better hardware. It should never take that much time to
>>> install an OS - in my VMs, it never took that long....
>>>
>>> What specs on the machine (including host OS)?
>> From memory, it was a 4 GHz Pentium IV with 512 MB RAM, running QEMU.
>>
>> (The laptops I'm looking at using are this spec or worse.)
>
> Memory would be the issue here, no wonder it took forever to install, it
> was probably swapping fiercely.
>
> For good virtualization, you really need to have at least 1 or 2 GB of
> memory. Insufficient host memory can lead to serious performance
> problems.
It didn't seem to be swapping *at all*. Hardly any HD activity. Just
100% CPU, constantly.
I've heard people claim that the problem is QEMU - which is a user-mode
hardware emulator rather than a virtualisation program that runs most
code natively... but having never seen any other VM product, I don't
know if it makes much difference.
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