| James Barrett on 23 Nov 2010 04:02:59 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Virtualization for small system? |
Virtualbox will do exactly what you need it to do, and is very easy to use. Virtualbox makes setting up virtual machines quick and painless. Xen is also sufficient, but it would be very cumbersome for your needs. The only possible constraint I can see with your configuration is RAM. You might struggle if you appropriate less than 256MB to your XP environment, which, after overhead, will take a huge chunk out of the RAM left over for your Linux host environment. 1GB of RAM will work fine, but it will be much faster if you had 2GB. -- Jim Barrett Absecon, NJ jadoba@jadoba.net On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com> wrote: > VirtualBox, definitely. Much easier/more feature-complete for desktop use. > > Also, Xen has largely fallen out of favor, at least in Fedora/CentOS/RHEL circles -- KVM is where it's at. > > -- > Doug Stewart > > On Nov 23, 2010, at 6:32 AM, Floyd Johnson <fljohnson3@isp.com> wrote: > >> Dear PLUGgers, >> >> At times, web development requires testing in Internet Explorer 8, which WINE can't seem to run as of version 1.3.7. As such, I am considering running Windows in a VM on my lappy. It's a 1 GB, 2x1.6GHz machine running Ubuntu 10.10 (small, but Linux makes it mighty). >> >> Which is the better virtualization gear for such a setup, VirtualBox or Xen? Or does something else make more sense? >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org >> Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >> General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug