VMWare Pre-Allocated vs. Growable, which is faster?
- by tekiegreg
In an effort to increase speed in my Vmware setup, I was thinking about converting a Windows XP Guest 32 bit I have from growable to pre-allocated, I'm currently running VMWare Workstation 7 with Windows 7 64 bit as the host.
Specs:
Dual Core CPU, one allocated to guest
4GB of RAM, 2GB to guest
HD max capacity is 500GB, 150GB allocated to guest (I have 300GB left and don't mind parting with the space, currently HD is 80GB and converting would obviously add another 70GB of space), HD that guest is running on is separate from Host OS
Either that or any other suggestions you have might be appreciated, thanks!