The thing with ram though is that you need to make sure that it is fast ram, or have a lot of it will not speed things up. Having 10 GB of DDR PC2700 won't be as fast as 3 GB of DDR3 PC 6700. But yes, the price of ram has come down and with a powerful enough CPU and 2.5 times the amount of ram you need for one OS then you can have a Host OS and a Virtual Machine of the same or less system specs.
Regards, Mike Wohlrab Computer Technology Solutions 585-944-3823 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mikewohlrab.com ftp://ftp.mikewohlrab.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Arnold Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 7:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Dual Boot Desktop Machine Recommendations Jeff, My actual experience with VM was in the IBM world, and in that context we could run any OS under VM, even VM (again). So, my expectation is that VM in the PC world can do similarly and that you shouldn't have any problem running any of the OS's you choose to in a VM environment - that the only real obstacle was having enough RAM to do so without a performance hit. With the price of RAM having dropped as it has, that's no longer an obstacle. Thus it seems that you (and I, everyone) would want to make this change ourselves. I have different machines with different versions of Windows (except Vista) because I bought them way and most of my time is using XP with little real need to run the others except for some testing or convenience. When I do upgrade again though, it seems a clear path to go with VM and copious RAM. Bill > Bill: Excuse me for not reading all of the previous posts as I have > been outdoors enjoying the weekend. I have two dual boot machines. > Ubuntu/XP and Ubuntu/Vista. I also use Virtual Box on my Ubuntu > machines for testing installs, etc. Virtualization in Ubuntu using > Virtual Box is awesome! So why dual boot? I use XP for > customer login > only. I access five major corporations' networks using various > techniques. That is the only reason I use XP. I am going to > revert the > Vista box to XP because it is totally worthless to me. > > My main development machine is XP. > > Jeff [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/!&[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
