Mono required by ubuntu-desktop

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Fri Aug 11 00:58:50 BST 2006


On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 01:36:08AM +0200, didier . wrote:
> > It's been a while now, but I seem to recall doing a VMWare install with no
> > more than 256M and an empty virtual disk.  Could you share your
> > calculations?
> Does VMWare 'emulate' seek time?

Not that I know of, but while it's true that VMWare's virtual I/O should be
faster than reading from a CD, I think the other overhead of virtualization
compensates for it.  Even with plenty of virtual memory, the UI is sometimes
not very responsive.

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 - mdz



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