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I have 64bit laptop, running windows 7 64 bit operating system with 7200 RPM Hard drive.
I have Vmware installed on Windows 7, and I am using the Ubuntu 10.10 as virtual machine. Performance seems to be fine.
My question is that if I use 16 GB USB thumb drive to install and run Ubuntu 10.10, will it have any performance gain over Ubuntu running as virtual machine inside windows?
why don't you try it (and report the results here)? It is easy enough to do. I'd expect the VM to be 5-10 % slower in computational tasks but about 4-5 times faster on accessing system files (anything on the USB stick, including swap) compared to the VM (reading from the HDD). – user12889 – 2011-01-21T05:17:04.873
Oh..well.. I didn't read your comment.. but wrote my own. Well.. I totally agree. – Apache – 2011-02-21T08:35:59.790