Answer by Mike for VMWare performance for a build server - awful or wrong tests?
Virtualization is not always a fit... but... you haven't told us any specs on the developer workstation. How much memory does it have? How many cores?Are you running compilation with the /MP flag?Were...
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What do the performance stats (Perfmon, Performance Monitor, etc( inside the guest say it's bottlenecked on? What does the hypervisor OS say for equivalent stats? Are you using paravirtualised drivers...
View ArticleAnswer by Chopper3 for VMWare performance for a build server - awful or wrong...
Did we mess up any settings to get such horrible slowdown for the C++ build?Probably not, VMWare Workstation wasn't the right tool for the job.Should we have tested ESX(i)(?) instead of...
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We are looking into virtualizing our C++ Build server(s). The main reason being that our current toolchain that we use in addition to the build itself in Visual Studio only runs properly on Windows XP...
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