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InVirtus VM Optimizer 2.0 Review

I tried a prerelease version of InVirtus VM Optimizer 2.0 and the only thing that I can say is that it really rocks!!!

It's a software that can optimize Microsoft (Virtual PC and Virtual Server) and VMware (Workstation and GSX Server) virtual machines, with Windows guest OS (from Win2K to Windows Server 2003 – InVirtus says Vista support will be available when Vista is released by Microsoft).

It can reduce the virtual harddisk size, and can optimize the guest OS to run smooth inside a VM.

To read the rest of the review, you can go here: InVirtus VM Optimizer 2.0 Review

Posted: Oct 05 2005, 02:00 PM by barbilor | with 3 comment(s)
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Ron Shelton said:

Sounds interesting, but I am not sure I "get" what the software is for. Can't you just open your VM, run "Disk Cleanup" and "Defrag" and get the same result? My VM already runs "smooth" with Server 2003 - so I don't really understand what the "optimize guest OS to run smooth" feature is supposed to be doing. Did you notice a performance increase of any kind? Thanks.
# October 5, 2005 8:23 AM

Lorenzo Barbieri said:

I tried several times to cleanup the disk, defragment it, erase all the empty sectors and compress it, but I never reached that amount of reduction.

I don't know exactly what happens during the execution of the tool, but I've also seen a reduction of the boot time.

But what I really really liked was the disk space reduction, that I've never reached before.
# October 5, 2005 9:02 AM

Lorenzo Barbieri said:

I've updated the review, because some steps were removed in newer build.
# October 5, 2005 9:18 AM
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