I got a netbook running windows 7 starter and kubuntu 10.04 netbook edition.
It runs a bit faster in linux. The big thing would be to upgrade the ram to
2 gig if you can. I have not tried to run virtual machine on 1 gig of ram
yet. I have a second netbook running just linux kubuntu 10.04 netbook
edition with 2 gig of ram and virtual machine with windows xp on the virtual
machine and works fine.
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Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 7:54 PM
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Subject: [clug-talk] Virtual machines
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.
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