Re: [avr-chat] AVR Studio under VirtualBox, anyone?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:25:00 -0400
Bob Paddock <address@hidden> wrote:

> Only thing I find annoying, and I doubt
> it is specific to VirtualBox, is that when doing nightly backups you
> end up backing up this huge file everyday that you used VirtualBox.
> VirtualBox needs some type of delta change save.
> 
> VirtualBox is now owned by Sun and they have been making changes.

Hmpf yes, same here !
I got bored waiting 5 minutes for every virtual machine to be backed
up, so I just excluded them from the backup...
I backup the VM's one, when the OS and all major applications, have
been installed initially, but I don't backup after that. All documents
that may need to be saved are shared on the host file system, so they
do get backed up.

I guess this problem is only a temporary one... now that SSD's,
internalled stripped/RAIDed, manage 1 GByte/s, backing up VM's won't be
a problem.
Still, we will probably have to wait 3 years for these SSD's to become
affordable/wide spread...

--
Vince, having a hard time enduring his trouble some HDDs...