"But is that dog-slow-minimum or it is reasonable for a usable VBox install running Ubuntu as a guest?"
Hound Dog slow. Up the XP to 256, and double the others, too, to get a reasonable machine instance. Or at least that's what I read recently. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > The last time I ran VirtualBox in Windows was on XP with 3+ GB of RAM. > What would folks here say is the minimal requirement for running an > Ubuntu guest in VirtualBox on Windows XP, Vista, or Win7? > > Unfortunately, the Vbox docs are somewhat vague: > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/End-user_documentation > > From Microsoft's site, the minimums seem to be 128 MB for XP, 500 MB > for Vista, 1 GB for Win 7. But is that dog-slow-minimum or it is > reasonable for a usable VBox install running Ubuntu as a guest? > > FWIW, I can run an Ubuntu 9.04 guest with 500 MB virtual RAM on an > Ubuntu 8.04 host with 2 GB RAM. > > Regards, > - Robert > > -- > Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > Main page: http://www.cwelug.org > To post: [email protected] > To subscribe: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
