[ALUG] How do people here manage updates (or not)?

Chris G cl at isbd.net
Tue Nov 6 08:47:07 GMT 2007


On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 12:36:26AM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 22:27 +0000, samwise wrote:
> 
[snip]

> It can on the fly resize the volume to be copied down to any size larger
> than the current used space in the windows partition and then generate
> it as a VM image that grows as needed (having images that grow does
> however have a performance impact in VMware)
> 
This interests me as I currently have a 'non-growable' disk for my XP
guest and I wondered how much slower it would be if I changed that to a
'growable' disk.  Have you any sort of handle on how much slower the
growable disks are?

-- 
Chris Green



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