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

[me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)]

Especially not with Windows XP/7 VMs.

On 06/05/2013 03:54 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Back to the days when an 8K PDP-8 was double memory for the Burger King
> POS.
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> My AcerOne netbook has 1GB, and can run 2 VMs. But, I would not call
> that usable.
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> 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).
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>> 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:
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>>>> 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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