Nooooooooooooooooooooo! Stop........... :(
Tharin, do not go there..............Do not give in to the 'dark force!'
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously, Go for it pal! We all get to have fun. That is what this is
suppose to be about....... Well, what I thought.
Congrats. Another tick on your peaked hat methinks......... :)
Best,
Duncan
At 15:09 11/09/2007 -0800, you wrote:
Only just recently have I gotten into virtualization and golly gee, I
think it's swell!
I rebuilt my personal computer as a low power / quiet system in a slim
case. I don't do any gaming so I just needed something that could play
high quality H.264 videos without a hitch.
I also consolidated several systems into one quad core computer w/4gb of
ram. I've got all sorts of VM's on it such as Win2003 Server, CentOS,
Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Win2K Pro, etc. Primarily it acts as a file server with
2TB (5x500gb RAID 5) storage space. I have Asterisk running on the host OS
so it can handle the telephony card that is installed and connected to my
POTS lines. I utilize the different vm's for various tasks like testing
apps and operating systems, ripping/encoding, file sharing, music&video
streaming, network backups, etc. I can connect to the various VM's from my
pc or laptop using Remote Desktop or VNC. Since it resides in my wiring
closet on the opposite end of the house I don't hear the slightest sound
of a hard drive clicking or a fan whirring :)
-Tharin O.
Brian Weeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was actually thinking about the virtualization comment from Tharin.
I use XP mainly because of gaming. I have Ubuntu on my laptop and
much prefer it for your daily office/internet/stuff usage but of
course gaming sucks. And I would really prefer to use OSX for my
video work because the tools are just easier to use and interface
better.
Has anyone built a virtualization box? Meaning, it should be possible
to have 3 OS images (XP, Linux, OSX) and just moving between the three
as you see fit. Now that I could see needing a quadcore and about 4GB
of RAM.
Aside from I/O becoming your chokepoint, anything else I'm not
thinking about that would prevent such a setup from running?
--
Brian Weeden
On 11/7/07, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
> that looks like a fine board to me...core 2 quad is your ticket...
>
> we seem to have very similar needs in a PC.
>
> Brian Weeden wrote:
> > Right now I'm playing Orange Box (friggin AWESOME), Bioshock (when it
> > doesn't crash), Civ 4, and AOE 3. I'm mainly an RTS / strategy gamer
> > but do grab the occasional FPS but only the ones with good first
> > person as I don't get into the multiplayer shooters much.
> >
> > For mobo I was looking at the ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP
> > http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813131196
> >
> > Dual video cards is not something I plan on doing anytime soon but
> > onboard USB, Fireware, LAN, and audio is.
> >
> >
>
