Installing Virtual Machine On Dropbox

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DonovanW1

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Hello,
I have a MacBook pro that I use my VM on. It's top of the line so everything runs seamless. Although, the laptop comes with 500Gigs of HD space. And since I do a lot of music and video production (music on the VM side). I tend to eat space fast. I have an upgraded Dropbox account and my internet runs anywhere in between 150MB to 200MB a second. So here's my question.

If I moved my VM to Dropbox and ran it from Dropbox, would there be a huge issue? I guess I could always just test this myself but I thought I'd get some feedback as well. Thanks.
 
Hi @DonovanW1, it is not recommended to run Windows virtual machine (.pvm file) in Dropbox. The reason why is, the performance of the virtual machine will be affected. It might runs slow. Dropbox syncs all files in 4MB chunks. If, when writing a file, the application in question just changes a portion of the file, then Dropbox will only sync the changed portions, in 4MB chunks. However, if an application re-writes the entire file's structure when saving (like with some compressed files), then Dropbox will see that the entire file has changed and will need to re-sync the entire thing.
 
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