Re: Running Postgresl in a virual machine

Richard Sickler wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience running Postgres in a virtual machine, or
> recommendations (or could point me to a place where I could read more about
> Postgres and Virtual machines)? Thanks.

Not done it on a Windows VM, but there shouldn't be any special
difficulties. Performance shouldn't be a real issue with only a handful
of hits. I've had problems with disk i/o under VMs, but that might just
be me.

You might want to try with quite a small amount of memory allocated to
the VM. It could be that a small VM with the host left to handle disk
caching is fine for your needs.

Oh, if you really want to squeeze it down look at running a pared-down
freebsd/linux vm with just PostgreSQL running. I'd have thought you
could turn off more services in *nix than Windows.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd