I figgur it's too late to change the GVM architecture; however, it seems to me that a good way to handle GVM storage would be to use a vfat file system image. That way, it'd be easy to manually install things by mounting the image and copying files to/from it. I run into a prob where GVM doesn't want to install files of formats it doesn't recognize, even when those files are needed by programs (I've had to setup Hotsync just to install these files). SD cards on the Palm are supported by vfat anyway.

On the other hand, I get the feeling that file system size in the GVM is limited by performance issues. I have one GVM image that has about 60MB stored on it, and it takes 60-120 seconds, and sometimes longer, just to start it. It seems that the more you install on the GVM image, the slower it starts. It makes me wonder if the GVM loads the entire image into some sort of dynamic memory before launching (bad).

In order just to install a minimum set of Palm apps., I've had to create 3 separate GVM stores (each launched by its own shortcut). This is a major kludge for several reasons, the greatest of which is that I cannot launch two GVM's at the same time. It makes it extremely inconvenient to use GVM for my PIM because stopping one GVM and starting another takes too long to simply enter an appointment.