I asked Ben over at "Virtual PC Guy" blog about some tips for tweaking my VPC performance.
Specifically i was curious about the speed difference between virtual IDE and SCSI drives. He said that with the VM additions installed, virtual SCSI drives will perform better.
Also, he said that fixed disks are going to perform better than dynamically expanding disks. When setting up my VPCs from sysgen-ed templates, I'd been using dynamically expanding disks to keep the .vhd file sizes down. I just turned off my VPCs, and converted the .vhds to fixed, and re-linked them to the VPC. Took about a 1/2 hr or more, but it should be worth it.
I read on MSFT.com that defragging the host computer drive will help alot also, so that's one last thing i'm doing before tying off all the loose ends on this host machine, and getting down to some real dev work.
Guess I'll start off with a Dandy Warhols reference... :)
First I wanted to thank Donny Mack for getting me started here on SqlJunkies.
I'll be moving over some of my content from my Blogger account, and keep my technical posts here on SqlJunkies.
I decided to start a blog on SqlJunkies because of the great set of people already here... Michael Rys, Kent Tegels, Don Kiely... folks that have had really interesting blog postings on Yukon and other SQL issues.
I plan to talk about issues with bleeding-edge MSFT technologies: Yukon, Whidbey, etc. I've been working with Whidbey and Yukon for the last 3-4 months, and have experienced the highs and lows of using the early betas and CTPs, but i've still made a lot of progress with rewriting our platform from scratch in .NET 2.0 and based on Yukon.
I hope to pass along any tidbits of knowledge i find along the way, and workarounds for any glitches with the dev tools.
Thanks for having me here...