As a follow-up to my post on whether to choose Vista or XP for VMWare Fusion, I thouht I’d add this. 

Lunch time, er, Launch Time

I didn’t time it scientifically but I definitely noticed.  I had booted my Vista VM and was frustrated by how long I had to wait.  I went and got a drink, came back, walked around a bit, checked again, got the mail, fed the dog, and finally, Vista was ready to use.

Then I realized I needed to launch my XP image to check in the changes I’d not yet committed to Subversion.  XP launched in about 30 seconds.

One more thing to consider if you shut down when you are done. 

p.s. If you use an external drive for VMWare images, always shut down or completely suspend before shutting down the host.  Nasty things happen if you don’t.  Of course, on occassion, you may get Vistaed on shut down so plan ahead. 

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