XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, misc.taxes   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 1/29/2026 3:56 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
      
   > I was saying this for Dennis (he is not happy about buying a new machine   
   every five years),   
   > because it is a way of running W11 in a machine that doesn't have supported   
   hardware,   
   > like no TPM. It will of course run slow.   
      
   I wish we had better benchmarks for "slowness", just so we could   
   identify factors that make it faster.   
      
   Linux host-to-guest file I/O can manage 600MB/sec inside a VM.   
      
   The Windows VMs seem to be lower than that, host-to-guest.   
   It can be hard to tell if paravirtualization is being used   
   when the hosting software has settings like "Default".   
      
   On both Linux host (TMPFS) and Windows host (OSFMount), I can   
   have a RAMDrive for the VM container to sit on. This does not   
   do anything for I/O particularly, but it reduces the seek time   
   to zero. It behaves more like an SSD, when all you own is a   
   single slow HDD. But you need a lot of RAM to do that. And   
   in the current RAMpocalypse I can't really advocate for this   
   any more. When a Windows Guest boots and scans the shit out of C:   
   you hardly notice.   
      
   At one time, virtual machine file I/O was down   
   around 1MB to 2MB/sec or so. And the graphics drew   
   so slowly, you could see individual pixels getting   
   painted row by row. To say it is slow today, it's   
   nothing compared to how it was in early days. We were   
   running x86 OS on top of a SPARC instruction set.   
      
   A modern VM could have unaccelerated graphics. The driver   
   is wrong or very wrong. The CPU takes up the slack (MESA   
   is doing some of the work via software path).   
      
   The Windows MBEC support can degrade performance on older   
   than 10th gen CPUs. 8th gen CPUs sorta work. 4th gen CPUs   
   some feature might be turned off.   
      
   One virtualization product won't allow more than 2 cores. Silly.   
      
   In a lot of these cases, there does not seem to be a lot of   
   traction to fix it. You can use "PCI Passthru" to have a   
   second GPU dedicated to the virtual machine, and then the   
   driver is no longer driving virtual graphics, it is   
   driving real graphics. The odds of that working are   
   pretty close to zero :-) Just the fact my new computers   
   don't have a PCI slot, rules out using my spare-dummy card   
   for graphics.   
      
   At some point, it's just better to say "screw it, I'm   
   going physical" instead of virtual. And just install   
   Windows 11 besides Windows 7, using Rufus for the boot   
   stick preparation, and using the "Custom" install option,   
   declare a 200GB partition and just slap it in.   
      
   I'm averaging around a day each for these little projects,   
   just to give some idea what sort of time allocation to expect.   
   You might have a dozen tabs open in your browser, with recipes   
   to "fix this or that". The AI can at least make you aware   
   of stuff you need to fix, even if the recipes aren't complete.   
      
   And Duckduckgo is turning out to be a better search than Google   
   plague search.   
      
   And where would I be if I didn't have two computers ?   
   You can't be hardware poor and expect a quick result.   
      
      Paul   
      
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