Virtualization Update
Just a quick update. After my previous post, I actually stopped using virtualization for most cases, since I found the performance hit to be too significant. While the automation I mentioned before still doesn’t support HyperV, I hand built a couple of VM’s with it and I have to say that I’m quite impressed.
On my host machine, it takes about 8 minutes to do a clean build of the code I usually work on. With my previous virtual machine, it took about 32 minutes! I think this happened because while my host machine has 4 processors, the VM can only access one of those. I wasn’t willing to pay that price. With HyperV today it takes about 9.5 minutes, and I am willing to pay that price for the added flexibility and the time I can save installing builds.
