Why is Hard Disk Access Slow Through a Virtual Machine?

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Published on 2010-04-20T21:04:17Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 21:24 UTC
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Why is throughput to an external hard drive from a virtual machine much slower than through the host? Access is generally 30MB/sec from the host and 4MB/sec frm the client. Is this normal?

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