[Cialug] Specs for a VM machine?

[Randle Boyd]

 Dave, what laptop do you own?  I am hoping, or should I say my wife is pushing me, to cut back on the physical boxes and  go virtual in the near future.  I was think of maybe a base of Ubuntu or Fedora, then a virtual Widows, a Linux beta release or two, and perhaps Haiku.

Cheers,
Randle

  -------------- Original message from David Champion <dave at dchamp.net>: --------------


> Vmware player runs pretty smooth on my laptop, has the 2ghz Core2Duo and 
> 4gb of RAM. My host OS is Linux. I've mostly used it for booting other 
> Linux distributions for testing.
> 
> I'd get as much RAM as your PC and / or OS will support. RAM is very 
> cheap these days.
> 
> Most of the newer processors have the VTProc extensions, but be sure to 
> check first. I was dissapointed to find out that my AMD X2 processor in 
> my PC with a Socket939 does not support it.
> 
> I don't know that you "need" a Quad Core processor... but I've been 
> doing some research on building a new PC for home, and some of the Intel 
> Core2Quad processors are available for a very attractive price compared 
> to the Core2Duo. One thing I'd beware of - some of the cheap package 
> deals for the first generation AMD Phenom Quad Core processors look very 
> attractive, but those processors had a bug in them... so hold out for 
> one of the newer ones, or stick with the Intel processors.
> 
> I may have to try out the new VirtualBox that has the hardware 
> acceleration support. I'm looking forward to the day when I can just run 
> Windows games in a VM instead of having to reboot. From what I've heard, 
> it isn't really there yet, but should be in the next year or so.
> 
> -dc
> 
> Todd Walton wrote:
> > Liftoff!  I successfully booted an existing Windows installation from
> > within Linux, using VirtualBox.  Well, I didn't get all the way to the
> > desktop because it was *slow*.  But regardless, I'm as pleased as a
> > pig in... underwear.
> >
> > So, I'm thinking about building a new computer in a month or two.
> > Right now I'm running an Athlon 1GHz with 1GB of RAM.  I'd like
> > something with about 2 or 3 times the amount of RAM, and a faster
> > processor.
> >
> > Question: In what way does the processor matter to running virtual
> > machines?  I'll get a multi-core with virtualization support, that's a
> > given.  But should I go for quad core and as fast as I can afford it?
> > Or could I save a few bucks on the processor to spend on, say, a
> > better video card?
> >
> > -todd
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