I did a little test with my laptop.

VMware server 2.0 free download
Memory available for OS 384 MB
Debian etch
Freecom Hard Drive Pro 250 GB USB2 disk formatted ext3 bs 4096

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4k count=300k
307200+0 records in
307200+0 records out
1258291200 bytes (1.3 GB) copied, 63.8275 seconds, 19.7 MB/s

dd of=/dev/null if=/dev/sdb1 bs=4k count=300k
307200+0 records in
307200+0 records out
1258291200 bytes (1.3 GB) copied, 70.719 seconds, 17.8 MB/s

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=64k count=100k
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
6710886400 bytes (6.7 GB) copied, 324.055 seconds, 20.5 MB/s

If you want another test, i can easily install something else on this VM
debian, cause it's only a test system.

Greetings,
Koen Linders


-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com] 
Verzonden: woensdag 8 april 2009 23:30
Aan: General list for user discussion, questions and support
Onderwerp: Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

Rob Owens wrote:
>> Both 
>> Virtualbox and the current vmware server/player claim to work with USB 
>> 2.0 but I haven't done any speed tests yet - in fact I haven't been able 
>> to get virtualbox to see usb drives at all.
>>
> I think USB only works in the closed source version of VirtualBox.

Yes, I think that's what I'm using.  It does see the USB, installs some 
sort of new driver on the windows side and lets me tell the guest to 
capture it, but then the status always shows as busy and the guest never 
sees it.

> If you decide to got the live cd route, you might want to try Ubuntu.
> Version 8.10 comes with a nice and easy USB stick installer.  Sidux has
> one, too.

I think clonezilla has a ubuntu-base version.  I'll try that again.  But 
I'm still interested in a VM that has decent USB speed so I can plug 
ext3 drives into my laptop and access them while still running windows.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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