To: old-ager
Yeah but you need a gigabyte of RAM for each concurrent one, realistically. Nah--I run W2k on a 256M VM, along with another Linux VM using only 512M of RAM. I run both of these and my host OS on a 1GB laptop.
7 posted on
08/24/2006 7:56:51 AM PDT by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
Nah--I run W2k on a 256M VM, along with another Linux VM using only 512M of RAM. I run both of these and my host OS on a 1GB laptop.HAH! I'm so cool... my laptop has 2GB of ram. Running FC5, I can run 2 FC5 VMs and XP... without touching my swap space.
One thing to keep in mind if you are using vmware, you can actually oversubscribe your ram, and vmware will only use what it needs as opposed to the entire memory space requested.
9 posted on
08/24/2006 9:47:07 AM PDT by
zeugma
(I reject your reality and substitute my own in its place. (http://www.zprc.org/))
To: ShadowAce
So Windows runs on half the RAM, yet you refer to Linux as a "service pack" in your tagline. LOL obviously more of a "downgrade".
13 posted on
08/24/2006 8:04:26 PM PDT by
Golden Eagle
(Buy American. While you still can.)
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