Both of mine have the N455, the one is the HP Mini and I upgraded the ram to
2GB, my other is a Toshiba NB305 with 1GB of ram. They all have only 1GB of
ram from the manufacturer but most can be upgraded to 2GB. The downside is
they only have one ram slot so upgrading means the old ram has to be sold or
shelfed.
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Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Virtual machines
This sounds very positive. Which processors do your netbook use?
The ASUS machines I have been considering has an N270 which I like because
it has a power saving feature and will fall back to about 200 mHz if its not
doing anything. However these machines seem to be limited to 1GB.
A better bet might be a dual core system however from what I can tell they
don't do power saving.
Your 2nd machine sounds ideal. Another question I should ask is if one can
just lift XP off a running machine. I have a number of machines which have
a license copy of XP however I have zero CD's with it.
Does it make any sense to put the guest OS on a USB memory stick?
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 04:31:05PM -0700, Jason Fraser wrote:
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
To: [email protected]
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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