On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 11:05 -0500, Pablo Sanchez wrote:
> 
> I know you didn't ask me but in case you do ....  :) ... I'm using a
> VDI.

A virtual disk then?  Rather than (a) native partition(s), yes?

> How much RAM does the host have?  

2G

> For my VM, I'm using the default 8MB of video.  I believe in the docs
> it says there's not much to gain in cranking up the video RAM.

I had some problems with higher res. video modes, like 1280x1024 so
thought I'd up it a bit.  Once things are going tickity-boo I might try
scaling back resource allocation to see what is sufficient.

> In your VM's task bar,

Do you mean the guest's (i.e. WinXP's) taskbar?

> any memory hungry drives running?

Hrm.  Not sure what you mean by "memory hungry drives".

> It sounds
> like your VM is swapping.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too, but cranking up the allocated
memory didn't seem to have any measurable effect on that and really,
512MB should be fairly sufficient for WinXP.  This is a pretty new
installation so it hasn't had much time to accumulate "phantom
process" (i.e. all those little processes that want to sit in the
taskbar just in case you want to run them).

b.

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