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Re: Source changes

• Posted by Jules <jdavy at dsl.?ipex.com> Jul 07, 2007
• 593 views

Gary Shingles wrote:
> 
> Jules wrote:
> > 
> > I can't comment on vmware but you should give virtualbox a try. I only
> > discovered
> > it yesterday and thought I'd try installing XP on my Ubuntu laptop. 
> > 
> > Wow! this is very slick and amazingly easy to set up. One-click install, a
> > couple
> > of minutes to set up the virtual machine (I allocated half of my 512Mb of
> > RAM)
> > using the wizards, pop in the CD, and 40 minutes later I had a fully
> > functioning
> > XP system running. Very impressive. 
> > 
> > <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org">http://www.virtualbox.org</a>
> 
> Already on my hard drive   I saw your other post and
> read up on it straight away.  I haven't tried anything yet though.
> 
> I predict that if you want to keep an XP setup handy you'll be looking at
> putting
> another 512Mb RAM in your laptop :)  I can't stand XP on only 256Mb, even on
> a 3.0GHz machine.
> 
> Gary

You're right. It's a little jerky with 256Mb, but quite usable. I gig would be
fine I think. (512Mb each for the host and guest OS).