[TriLUG] VirtualBox?

[Robert Dale]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 7:53 AM, John Mitchell <john280z at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>   At work I run Linux inside a VirtualBox on a 2.8 GHz P4 (single core) Win
> XP box with 2 Gig ram  When compiling ARM code in Linux the Win system is
> almost useless, it can take 10 seconds for the screen saver login to react.
> Much better perf on a dual core, both will run almost full speed. Ona
> singel
> core box, run as little as possable on the guest.
>   I run VirtualBox on my Vista laptop (AMD, dual core, 64 bit, 4 Gig ram)
> and it runs very good, it's wonderful to test out this weeks latest distro,
> just download and run it.
>
>
The P4 does not have hardware virtualization so you're running in
software-mode which is slow anyway.  When dual-core CPUs came out, most came
with virtualization.

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Robert Dale