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 from the client. Is this normal?
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When you're running an OS within and OS and maintaining a FileSystem within a FileSystem, not to mention sharing a hard drive spindle, there's lots of opportunities for things to go very slowly.
If you're interested in improvements (not exactly the whole theory about virtual hard disks) the Scott Hanselman advices are very good.
Well, look at the speed of the virtual usb port in your guest vm. It may give some clues. For instance, there are various usb ports with varying speeds:1.5M, 12M, 480M.
Earl
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