[TriLUG] TriLUG Digest, Vol 878, Issue 1

John Brier johnbrier at gmail.com
Wed Oct 28 23:25:35 EDT 2009


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> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:09:58 -0400
> From: Randy Barlow <randy at electronsweatshop.com>
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] TriLUG Digest, Vol 869, Issue 1
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
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> John Brier wrote:
>> Anyway the actual Windows XP VM was too underpowered to play video
>> smoothly with playOn. My host was a Debian 5.0.1 Athlon 64 3200+ with
>> 2 GB memory. I gave the windows guest 1 GB of memory and playon
>> claimed the CPU was not adequate (it has a little color coded rating
>> red/yellow/green) The CPU was listed as yellow. also, fwiw playon has
>> a minimum requirement of 512 MB of memory.
>>
>> My system doesn't have virt extensions, I imagine if it did the guest
>> might perform well enough. I may have to upgrade my router/server to
>> accommodate this in the future. Hope this helps others.
>
> Virtualization extensions may help out in this scenario.  You may also
> try to add more virtual video memory to the VM.  I have no idea if that
> will be used heavily in this scenario, as I am not too familiar with
> graphics systems, but it's probably worth a shot since it's easy to do.

I tried adding video memory (8MB --> 128MB). It did seem to make some
improvement, but not enough. the VM is still really laggy and the
video itself is laggy on netflix, though on Hulu it seemed a lot
better.

JB



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