This sounds very positive. Which processors do your netbook use? The ASUS machines I have been considering has an N270 which I like because it has a power saving feature and will fall back to about 200 mHz if its not doing anything. However these machines seem to be limited to 1GB.
A better bet might be a dual core system however from what I can tell they don't do power saving. Your 2nd machine sounds ideal. Another question I should ask is if one can just lift XP off a running machine. I have a number of machines which have a license copy of XP however I have zero CD's with it. Does it make any sense to put the guest OS on a USB memory stick? On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 04:31:05PM -0700, Jason Fraser wrote: > I got a netbook running windows 7 starter and kubuntu 10.04 netbook edition. > It runs a bit faster in linux. The big thing would be to upgrade the ram to > 2 gig if you can. I have not tried to run virtual machine on 1 gig of ram > yet. I have a second netbook running just linux kubuntu 10.04 netbook > edition with 2 gig of ram and virtual machine with windows xp on the virtual > machine and works fine. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 7:54 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [clug-talk] Virtual machines > > > I have set up multi-boot and virtual machines before and I'm looking to do > this again. I'm most interested in minimal hardware... as in can this be > done from a low end netbook like say an ASUS eeePC. > > > There is some choice with regard to processors and I see the atom porcessors > seem to not support the virtualized instructions Intel offers on some more > expensive and faster and obvioulsy more capable CPUs. > > > Can we still successfully run a virtual machine - say with VMWare or Virtual > Box or perhaps something OSS? If we can what do we lose? > > > What do we gain with a more capable CPU? > > > last time I did this was in the last century and on a 233 mHz pentium (I or > II - I dont recall) I was able to run Linux w/ Oracle and and NT in a VM. > It worked fine. > > Now I see something like an Atom 1.6 GHz should run about as fast as a 2+ > GHs Pentium 4 so I would think even such a low power system should be a > candidate for a very decent testbed... I'm not looking for gaming... but I > probably will want compilers. > > > I'm also interested in OSX and I see apparently the ASUS 900 series is > pretty compatible... but I know next to nothing about this. > > > OS's I want to run include NT, possibly newer winders but not necessarily. > I'm not a winders fan anyways. OSX and maybe even an old DOS machine so I > can run some old software and not bother with a port! The old software > includes a serial I/F for a calcomp plotter. It would be nice to use it > again. Of course I can port this to Linux if I really want. But that old > Calcomp code is about as ugly as it gets! > > > Suggestions are really welcome. If we want we can put the boot images onto > a USB or whatever and a USB boot / Live USB makes sense to me. > > > My host system will _probably_ end up being Ubuntu. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1170 / Virus Database: 426/3320 - Release Date: 12/16/10 > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
