I have set up multi-boot and virtual machines before and I'm looking to do this again. I'm most interested in minimal hardware... as in can this be done from a low end netbook like say an ASUS eeePC.
There is some choice with regard to processors and I see the atom porcessors seem to not support the virtualized instructions Intel offers on some more expensive and faster and obvioulsy more capable CPUs. Can we still successfully run a virtual machine - say with VMWare or Virtual Box or perhaps something OSS? If we can what do we lose? What do we gain with a more capable CPU? last time I did this was in the last century and on a 233 mHz pentium (I or II - I dont recall) I was able to run Linux w/ Oracle and and NT in a VM. It worked fine. Now I see something like an Atom 1.6 GHz should run about as fast as a 2+ GHs Pentium 4 so I would think even such a low power system should be a candidate for a very decent testbed... I'm not looking for gaming... but I probably will want compilers. I'm also interested in OSX and I see apparently the ASUS 900 series is pretty compatible... but I know next to nothing about this. OS's I want to run include NT, possibly newer winders but not necessarily. I'm not a winders fan anyways. OSX and maybe even an old DOS machine so I can run some old software and not bother with a port! The old software includes a serial I/F for a calcomp plotter. It would be nice to use it again. Of course I can port this to Linux if I really want. But that old Calcomp code is about as ugly as it gets! Suggestions are really welcome. If we want we can put the boot images onto a USB or whatever and a USB boot / Live USB makes sense to me. My host system will _probably_ end up being Ubuntu. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
