| Host OS Windows 2003 |
Host OS Windows 2003 |
Host OS Windows 7 |
Host OS Windows 7 |
|
| config.ini options used |
WS 6.5.4 VM with 512 Mb RAM |
WS 6.5.4 VM with 4096 Mb RAM |
WS 7 VM with 512 Mb RAM |
WS 7 VM with 4096 Mb RAM |
mainMem.partialLazySave = "false" mainMem.partialLazyRestore = "false" mainmem.useNamedFile = "false" |
26 sec 21 sec 21 sec 22 sec 21 sec |
126 sec 132 sec 71 sec 122 sec 132 sec |
12 sec 11 sec 13 sec 11 sec 13 sec |
48 sec 51 sec 53 sec 51 sec 52 sec |
mainMem.partialLazySave = "false" mainMem.partialLazyRestore = "false" mainmem.useNamedFile = "true" |
12 sec 12 sec 12 sec 12 sec 11 sec |
19 sec 11 sec 12 sec 12 sec 11 sec |
11 sec 13 sec 11 sec 12 sec 12 sec |
52 sec 53 sec 52 sec 53 sec 52 sec |
mainMem.partialLazySave = "true" mainMem.partialLazyRestore = "true" mainmem.useNamedFile = "false" |
21 sec 22 sec 22 sec 21 sec 21 sec |
128 sec 136 sec 142 sec 136 sec 138 sec |
11 sec 12 sec 12 sec 11 sec 11 sec |
52 sec 52 sec 52 sec 55 sec 52 sec |
mainMem.partialLazySave = "true" mainMem.partialLazyRestore = "true" mainmem.useNamedFile = "true" |
12 sec 12 sec 12 sec 12 sec 12 sec |
18 sec 13 sec 13 sec 13 sec 13 sec |
12 sec 12 sec 11 sec 11 sec 12 sec |
54 sec 53 sec 51 sec 53 sec 53 sec |
Test : a simple VM booted into a Backtrack 2 LiveCD using an iso-file.
The VM was using a simple Linux-console pinging google so that it was easy to check for activity.
Then the VM was suspended.
A batchfile was used to change the config.ini and get the start-time of 2 vmrun.exe commands.
echo %time% >> report.txt
vmrun.exe start backtrack.vmx
sleep 4 (seconds)
vmrun.exe suspend backtrack.vmx
echo %time% >> report.txt
This way I got the time needed to start and suspend a VM from the report-text file.
Summary:
if suspend time and start time is important DO NOT TWEAK the config.ini
and use the default instead
mainmem.useNamedFile = "true"
if suspend time and start time of large VMs is important use Workstation 6.5.4
attached files: testspeed.txt