[GRLUG] virtual box

[David Pembrook]

On 3/23/2011 10:29 AM, Marissa Hogue wrote:
> On 03/23/2011 06:02 AM, west mi wrote:
>> Anyone have win7 working in vbox?
>> And does it work good?
> I have 32bit windows 7 running in VirtualBox on Arch Linux. Works pretty
> well for IE9, but that's about all I use it for. I'll echo David's
> comment about sluggishness; I have experienced this as well. Though I
> only gave it 1.5gb ram, which is probably not enough for Windows these
> days... =)
>
> Marissa
>
I don't think you'll need more than 1.5gb ram.

I'm using Win7 64 in vmware workstation for testing browsers too. 
Granted the virtualization platform is different. For kicks I even tried 
hulu. On a 2 year old dual core, its smooth with another 1gb ram debian 
vm running (and being used) same time. VM's are on a second drive and 
the host has plenty of memory.

I know this doesn't help with vbox but I don't think its a win7 or 
memory allocation issue.

Dave

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