From: dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:55:07 -0400, David W. Hodgins  wrote:   
      
   > With a multicore system, or a faster hard drive (ssd would be great), I'd   
   expect   
   > the difference to be barely noticeable.   
      
   Replying to myself. :-)   
      
   I can now confirm the above is correct.   
      
   On a system with an amd qaud core running at 4200MHz, 16GB ram,   
   and a 256GB ssd drive, I'm now running Mageia 2 x86-64 as the host,   
   with Mageia 1 i586, Mageia 1 x86-64, and Windows xp, all running as   
   VirtualBox guest systems.   
      
   The xp guest is using a fixed drive as I copied it from my old i586 system.   
   The Mageia guests are both using dynamic drives.   
      
   With all four operating systems running at the same time, I don't see any   
   noticeable difference in speed over bare hardware.   
      
   One thing to keep in mind, is that the linux guests are all running the   
   server version of the kernel to avoid the problem caused by   
   https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44   
      
   Regards, Dave Hodgins   
      
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