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Greg Anos · 02-08-2015, 11:51 AM

Just an FYI.

I broke out the stopwatch and measured the boot time for Win XP under Oracle's Virtual box. On an i5 Intel NUC (Haswell - notebook low power chip). Off a 5400 RPM harddrive boot drive.

From inital start of Oracle's Virtualbox to a finished boot of XP...

15 Seconds...

02-08-2015, 11:51 AM	#292
Greg Anos Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,532 Karma: 37057604 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Pocketbook	Just an FYI. I broke out the stopwatch and measured the boot time for Win XP under Oracle's Virtual box. On an i5 Intel NUC (Haswell - notebook low power chip). Off a 5400 RPM harddrive boot drive. From inital start of Oracle's Virtualbox to a finished boot of XP... 15 Seconds...