LH/VPC Speed boost?
In response to a post by G. Andrew Duthie, Drew Marsh tells of a possible speed tweak for the longhorn/virtual pc combo:
Did you guys make sure to 1) compact the VPC HD image and then 2) defrag the physical drive that image was created on? VPC dynamically expands the disk, which means it has to allocate new space for the HD each time which can result in a terribly fragmented VPC HD image file. Try the above (in order) and you should get some better performance.
HTH,
Drew
P.S. I'm not saying it's gonna BLAZING FAST after that, but I got a noticeable boost. ;)
Thanks Drew!