[ccp4bb] System virtual machine recommendation for crystallography?

2009-05-11 Thread Andy Torelli
Hello everyone, I would like to install a system virtual machine to run Ubuntu Linux as a guest OS on a 32-bit Vista laptop. The idea is to allow occasional use of crystallographic refinement programs while I'm away from lab. The laptop has an Intel Core 2 duo processor (2.0 GHz) and 3 GB

Re: [ccp4bb] System virtual machine recommendation for crystallography?

2009-05-11 Thread Roger Rowlett
I'm using VirtualBox 2.2.2 to run a Ubuntu 9.04 on WinXP (32 bit) as a testbed for migrating my lab servers/workstations from Fedora 8. It runs surprisingly well with 512 Mbyte of assigned memory and 64 Mbyte of assigned graphics memory. I have even used it to test Wine to run some Win-only