[Cialug] Specs for a VM machine?

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

Switching to laptops would be considered green. I wonder if we could get
some stimulus money to buy "green" laptops...




On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 23:25 +0000, Randle Boyd wrote:
> 
> 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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