Well, Larry. I am running ubuntu with 256M allocated on a 516M M$ XP host. Ubuntu is working fine while xp can still work, though not that smoothly. I thought it would be possible to do anything with 1G :-)
On 4/30/08, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I only have 1G RAM on board. But I'll install VB on Ubuntu 7.10 > > > desktop amd64 as Host. Would there be any problem? Thanks > > > > > > > I have not run Vista as a guest, but I think that the host should > > have at > > least 2 GB so that the guest can have 1 GB RAM. > > > > When I run XP as host on a 1 GB machine and Linux as guest with 512 > > MB, the > > Linux guest runs nearly as well as it does as host on that machine, > > but the > > XP host is nearly unusable. > > > Hi Larry, > > > Thanks for your advice, > > > Actually I haven't run Windows for prolonged time. Neither I need > Windows. > > > Recently in a MS conference I was a lucky winner getting a true copy of > Windows Vista, Ultimate edition in Lucky Draw. On the packing it has > been clearly indicated that this copy is NOT for sale NOR transferrable > and VALID for ONE PC with FREE licence. However my happiness ended > after unpacking it at home. There was a piece of paper packed inside > mentioning that the FREE licence was only valid for ONE YEAR. > > > As curiosity I installed Windows Vista on an 64 bit Athlon PC with 1G > RAM, only the OS w/o other softwares installed such Open Office, > Firefox, k3b, AVG, etc. It worked w/o problem. I thought instead of > allowing it taking up the whole 160G HD better installing it on > VirturalBox. Let it sleeping there until the licence expired. > > > I'll try to find an obsolete 10G/13G ATA HD as its home and let it rest > there until the end of its day. > > > B.R. > Stephen L > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com https://launchpad.net/~hugh-shang Linux Registered User #458314 _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
