On 29 March 2012 10:13, Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@...> wrote: > > IMO the most critical point is the memory configuration. VMs tend to use
I think so too. I never starve my host OS from memory. I have 4GB installed in my system. My host OS (Ubuntu 10.04) uses on average 45% of that for day-to-day us, so that leaves 2GB for VM sessions (guest OSes). As I mentioned, I normally allocate 512MB to 1GB to a guest OS session, so that still leaves 1GB spare for my host OS. I also normally only allocate one CPU core for a VM session to access, again leaving 3 cores for the host OS. I also never limit the VM session's CPU usage (called 'Execution Cap' in VirtualBox) - I leave that at 100% because it only has access to one of my CPU cores anyway. Obviously it is also vital to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions to improve guest OS performance. This makes a huge difference too. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
