Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Jan 2009 12:32 UTC
Windows Windows Vista introduced the Windows Experience Index, a method of comparing relative performance of several key hardware components in your system. Users who installed the Windows 7 beta on machines that previouslt ran Vista, will notice that their WEI figures have changed. In the latest post on the Engineering 7 weblog, Microsoft explains what has changed between Vista and 7 when it comes to the Windows Experience Index.
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Decent scores running via KVM
by phoenix on Tue 20th Jan 2009 20:59 UTC
phoenix
Member since:
2005-07-11

Host server is:
* 2x dual-core Opteron 2220 @ 2.8 GHz
* 8 GB DDR2-SDRAM
* 12x 500 GB SATA HD in RAID6
* 3Ware 9650SE PCIe RAID controller

KVM is configured as:
* 1 GB RAM
* 1 CPU
* 10 GB disk (IDE emulated on LVM volume)
* no paravirtual drivers installed

Scores are:
* Processor: 4.4
* RAM: 4.5
* Graphics: 1.0
* Gaming: 1.0
* Disk: 5.9