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Re: Host Linux or host Windows

pk_fox — Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:21 pm

Author: pk_fox

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:21 pm

wyliecoyoteuk wrote:

Its a Lenovo core i5@2.3 GHz with 4Gb of memory

Thanks.

Re: Host Linux or host Windows

pk_fox — Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:06 pm

Author: pk_fox

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:06 pm

wyliecoyoteuk wrote:

Its a Lenovo core i5@2.3 GHz with 4Gb of memory

Thanks.

Re: Host Linux or host Windows

pk_fox — Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:05 pm

Author: pk_fox

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:05 pm

Ram wrote:

I have an HP G62, 3 gig, I3 Quad core running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Virtualbox Ver 4.1.10r76795 running XP with 500 MB of Ram

This for testing / dev work.

MS SQL Server 2005
MS Visual C# 2008 & 2010 Express Editions
MS XNA Game Studio 3.0

If that helps

It does help thank you.

Re: Host Linux or host Windows

wyliecoyoteuk — Thu Oct 04, 2012 11:53 am

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 11:53 am

Its a Lenovo core i5@2.3 GHz with 4Gb of memory

Re: Host Linux or host Windows

Ram — Thu Oct 04, 2012 11:23 am

Author: Ram

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 11:23 am

I have an HP G62, 3 gig, I3 Quad core running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Virtualbox Ver 4.1.10r76795 running XP with 500 MB of Ram

This for testing / dev work.

MS SQL Server 2005
MS Visual C# 2008 & 2010 Express Editions
MS XNA Game Studio 3.0

If that helps

Re: Host Linux or host Windows

pk_fox — Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:51 am

Author: pk_fox

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:51 am

wyliecoyoteuk wrote:

Only problem with dual boot is that you can only access one OS at a time.
Most modern PCs can easily support 2 or more OSes in VMs.
I have a 4 core AMD processor with 8Gb of memory, and it can happily run several VMs simultaneously.
My dual core 4 GB laptop can run 2 without a problem.

Hi there, what laptop do you have ? I need to be able to run Visual Studio 2008 on the windows side of things and Fedora as my main OS. Thanks for your help.

Re: Host Linux or host Windows

reklan — Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:19 pm

Author: reklan

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:19 pm

Very true..

I must admit, I dual boot and use virtual machines.. I do however find that under Linux they do seem to run a tad faster than under windows..

but maybe its because i have moved to Virtual Box rather than Virtual PC/VM Workstation...

Re: Host Linux or host Windows

wyliecoyoteuk — Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:28 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:28 pm

Only problem with dual boot is that you can only access one OS at a time.
Most modern PCs can easily support 2 or more OSes in VMs.
I have a 4 core AMD processor with 8Gb of memory, and it can happily run several VMs simultaneously.
My dual core 4 GB laptop can run 2 without a problem.

Re: Host Linux or host Windows

reklan — Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:30 am

Author: reklan

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:30 am

OR look at dual boot...

If you need to use Windows for work purposes and Linux for personal use.. consider dual booting..

if the only reason was to use a VM for having the second OS.. with a dual boot setup. you can both OS's to their max ability and use your hardware to it fullest

Re: Host Linux or host Windows

wyliecoyoteuk — Tue Oct 02, 2012 8:56 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 8:56 pm

Yeah, make a windows VM, activate and then clone it.
Because the hard disk, processor, gfx, and network card MAC address remain the same, it is effectively the same PC.
Just don't try to run more than one copy at a time.

Re: Host Linux or host Windows

pk_fox — Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:28 am

Author: pk_fox

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:28 am

wyliecoyoteuk wrote:

Using Linux as the host has the advantage that you can run multiple instances of the same windows license (just not at the same time) for testing purposes, as the virtual and actual hardware remain the same.
I do this to maintain a software demo suite for incompatible applications.

Hi, thanks for your help, I can see I need to read some more on VM's - will Google for a tutorial.

Re: Host Linux or host Windows

wyliecoyoteuk — Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:41 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:41 pm

Using Linux as the host has the advantage that you can run multiple instances of the same windows license (just not at the same time) for testing purposes, as the virtual and actual hardware remain the same.
I do this to maintain a software demo suite for incompatible applications.

Re: Host Linux or host Windows

Ram — Mon Oct 01, 2012 6:46 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 6:46 pm

Same goes for Laptops.

Re: Host Linux or host Windows

pk_fox — Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:10 pm

Author: pk_fox

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:10 pm

Dutch_Master wrote:

As you'd expect here, we recommend Linux as the host platform

As for the spec's: depending on other requirements, any PC with >2 GHz clock speed and 3 GB RAM will run a Win-OS guest. However, mind that Vi$ta requires a minimum of 2 GB RAM to work, so the more RAM you put in, the better it'll perform, for M$ standards of course

FYI: my 'normal' supplier of PC components also has "upgrade kits". One has an Asus mainboard (FM1 socket), a top-end (-ish) AMD proc and 8 GB RAM (1333, IIRC) for under 200 Euro. Add enclosure, PSU (if not included in enclosure) and harddrive and basically, you'd be done for under 350 Euro.

Sorry my bad, I meant laptop not desktop, thanks for the spec though at least I know now

Re: Host Linux or host Windows

Dutch_Master — Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:05 pm

Author: Dutch_Master

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:05 pm

As you'd expect here, we recommend Linux as the host platform

As for the spec's: depending on other requirements, any PC with >2 GHz clock speed and 3 GB RAM will run a Win-OS guest. However, mind that Vi$ta requires a minimum of 2 GB RAM to work, so the more RAM you put in, the better it'll perform, for M$ standards of course

FYI: my 'normal' supplier of PC components also has "upgrade kits". One has an Asus mainboard (FM1 socket), a top-end (-ish) AMD proc and 8 GB RAM (1333, IIRC) for under 200 Euro. Add enclosure, PSU (if not included in enclosure) and harddrive and basically, you'd be done for under 350 Euro.