Vista - Can i run hyper V on a single harddisk ?

Assume a standalone machine, can i run hyper-v on a single harddisk ?

Shld hyper V itself (the hypervisor) runs on a mirror harddisk ?

>Assume a standalone machine, can i run hyper-v on a single harddisk ?

It's not optimum performance-wise, but yes, it'll work.
It depends on how fault tolerant you need it to be.

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Bob Comer


On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:14:04 +0800, "IT Staff" <jkklim@xxxxxx>
wrote:

Can you run on a single disk? Sure. Is it a good idea? No, not particularly.
But for a test machine, certainly.

Keep in mind that any virtualization solution puts more load on the I/O
subsystem, both disk and networking, than a normal physical computer. The
more VMs you have, the more true that is. If you have only a single disk, it
becomes your bottleneck very quickly.

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Charlie.
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"IT Staff" <jkklim@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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for demo purposes I even have it running on a dell laptop, no problem.
Ok, performance is lousy, but you can show something.

Cheers
Jaap Wesselius


"Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes. But as you say, performance is "sub optimal".<G> I certainly wouldn't
spec a non-laptop that way.

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"Jaap Wesselius [MVP]" <jaapwess@[remove-this].xs4all.nl> wrote in message
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