OK, so it's been nearly two months since I last posted, but then the work I've been doing is a little hush, hush, at least as far as our competitors are concerned.
But here's a hint:
While investigating the state of MOSS2007 BDC generator tools, I came across Todd's post on virtual machine performance for MOSS2007 development.
Makes for very interesting reading and his results are probably not all that surprising. Pitty he didn't compare with a real machine as well...