For the vbox tech team, or anyone that has fiddled with Win2K workstation and/or server edition on Ubuntu 9.10.
I am currently running a Windows 2000 workstation vbox with all service packs installed. I'm on an AMD Phenom X4 965 CPU machine (with 4 processors). My workstation is setup to run one virtual CPU. I also have on hand in a box on a shelf my old Windows 2000 server edition. I only use it for a few things, and performance is OK. But I suspect it could be a bit crisper than it is since the comparably configured but lesser-powered CPU PC (an AMD 64-2) that sits next to seems quite a bit more agile and I wouldn't mind moving my Acid Pro 7 software (digital audio workstation by Sony) over from that XP PC into this vbox, if I could get it to run a bit faster. The vbox has 3gb of my 8gb of memory assigned to it + 128mb for video. It has VT-x/AMD-V and nested paging enabled. It has plenty of swap assigned internally (1.5x ram) and a fully defragged half- full virtual disk drive. 2D and 3D graphics are currently enabled, but I don't do anything that is video intensive. I've played with the amount of memory I assign, but that doesn't seem to make any noticible difference so I've left it at 3gb in anticipation of being able to move Acid Pro 7 onto the vbox. Before I go changing things under the hood or changing the vbox O/S I run in pursuit of performance that might not be there, my question is this. What if any performance improvement by might be achieved by assigning more virtual CPUs to this Win2K vbox? I don't want to wind up assigning a huge load of processing power if most of the time (all the time) it will be overkill. Going a bit further, does the Win2K workstation O/S have the ability to harness more than 1 CPU? Should I reinstall using my Windows 2000 server edition that specifically says it supports up to 4 CPUs? Or should I just leave it all alone? Much obliged for any pointers on this. Thanks. -- Cheers, SDM -- a 21st Century Schizoid Man Systems Theory project website: www.systemstheory.net find us on MySpace, GarageBand, Reverb Nation, Last FM, CDBaby free MP3s of Systems Theory, Mike Dickson & Greg Amov music at www.mikedickson.org.uk _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
