I was reminded Thurday night how much slower my old little (as in tech specs) Averatec laptop is than my new little (as in overall size) Asus EeePC netbook. It took about two hours for the VM install of the Ubuntu desktop on the Averatec (working from the ISO file on the hard drive). Friday morning (working from the ISO file on a flash drive), in 35 minutes I was logging in to my VM Ubuntu desktop and accessing a terminal window.
There is, of course, a great difference in hard drive space between the two laptops (40Gb vs. 160Gb), as well as RAM (1Gb vs. 2Gb), though little in processor speed (1.53GHz Mobile AMD Athlon vs. 1.6GHz Intel Atom). So, I have to wonder how much “thrashing” was going on the night of the Averatec install.
My next query was, with the installation of Ubuntu as a VM taking even 35 minutes -- that’s a lot of "evening" time to someone who works full-time and spends nearly 2 hours commuting each day -- can one leave the VM running? And if so, for how long? The answer is that is installations can be suspended or powered off, waiting to be rebooted as required. In just a few minutes, the Ubuntu desktop or server is ready to go.
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