[Discuss] choice of hypervisor (was gracefully shutdown guests)

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Back to the days when an 8K PDP-8 was double memory for the Burger King 
POS.

My AcerOne netbook has 1GB, and can run 2 VMs. But, I would not call 
that usable.


On 06/05/2013 03:32 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> Yeah, 16GB is what I have now.  It was totally unusable with my old 
> laptop (4GB).
>
> On 06/05/2013 11:57 AM, Shirley M?rquez D?lcey wrote:
>> I'd say that anything less than 8GB counts as a small-memory system
>> nowadays. A boatload would be 16GB or more.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Ted Roche <tedroche at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've been pretty happy lately with Win7 as a kvm guest on my 
>>>> laptop, but
>>>> it was only usable once I had a laptop with a boatload of memory.
>>>>
>>>
>>> How big is a boat, these days?
>


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