milo47 wrote:
3. If anyone is still reading this, then I’d be slightly surprised! However, my third question is probably the most important of all. I’ve only spent a couple of hours running Windows inside VMware Workstation. Just to begin to understand the landscape, I scored Windows Experience Index and compared that with my physical system:
physical---virtual---component
7.6---7.5---Processor
7.6---7.9---Memory (RAM)
7.8---4.7---Graphics
7.8---6.0---Gaming Graphics
7.9---5.9---Primary Hard Disk
How Memory can be faster in the virtual world is a mystery.
Under VMware Workstation, all guest memory is cached write-back, regardless of the cache settings of the guest OS. If WEI normally bypasses the cache to measure physical memory performance, it could be misled when operating inside a VM.