I created a new virtual machine and tried to install Windows 7 on it. In one hour it didn't even get passed 10% (Windows 7 file copy progress). I'm starting to suspect the HDD now. However, from my google searches, I don't think there is any native I/O utility available for linux, at least none for SUSE. So, without such an utility, how to get the I/O usage?
Nevermind, I had to install iotop. No application is writing anything.
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I forgot to mention that these WMs are located on an NTFS partition. Could this be the cause? Will try on linux's partitions. I said linux partitions because I have no idea what partitions are they... Running fdisk -l returns:
Code:
Disk /dev/sdc: 111.8 GiB, 120034123776 bytes, 234441648 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: DELETED
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdc1 2048 337919 335872 164M EFI System
/dev/sdc2 337920 4546559 4208640 2G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sdc3 4546560 88438783 83892224 40G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sdc4 88438784 234440703 146001920 69.6G Microsoft basic data
What does Microsoft basic data means?
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I copied the VMs from the NTFS disk to my linux disk and they worked! Same performance.
Just to be clear, in my system I have 3 disks: 1 SSD linux, 1 SSD windows NTFS, 1 data drive NTFS.
Running VMs from NTFS is very slow, but running them from linux disk works fine.
Why is this?!
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