is pagefile.sys persistent between reboots?
Posted: 16. Jan 2010, 05:27
My guest OS is a 32-bit installation of Win7, whose primary VDI lives on an external SSD.
I would like to be able to use this VM on both my laptop and my desktop.
Both of my host machines are running 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 with VirtualBox 3.1.2 (non OSE version).
The tricky thing is that the guest OS needs a pagefile, but I'm scared to let it live on the SSD (due to the limited number of write cycles).
So I have a VDI that lives on the host machine's HDD that just contains the pagefile.
My question is, does Win7 expect the pagefile to be persistent between reboots?
For example, say I'm running the VM on my laptop, then I shut it down and move the SSD to my desktop and boot it back up.
Is Windows going to figure out (or care) that the pagefile.sys it was using in its previous session is not the same?
Or am I going to have to schlep the pagefile VDI from one computer to another whenever I want to switch hosts?
I would like to be able to use this VM on both my laptop and my desktop.
Both of my host machines are running 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 with VirtualBox 3.1.2 (non OSE version).
The tricky thing is that the guest OS needs a pagefile, but I'm scared to let it live on the SSD (due to the limited number of write cycles).
So I have a VDI that lives on the host machine's HDD that just contains the pagefile.
My question is, does Win7 expect the pagefile to be persistent between reboots?
For example, say I'm running the VM on my laptop, then I shut it down and move the SSD to my desktop and boot it back up.
Is Windows going to figure out (or care) that the pagefile.sys it was using in its previous session is not the same?
Or am I going to have to schlep the pagefile VDI from one computer to another whenever I want to switch hosts?