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

[Jerry Feldman]

Windows 7 requires a minimum or 1GB (2GB 64-bits) and certainly won't 
run in a VM on the Aspire One. And, Microsoft's requirements are very 
minimum. On my netbook, running VMs is not very useful for any real 
work, but it is ok for demos. Every new relwease of any OS increases the 
memory requirements :-(


On 06/05/2013 04:21 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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 Márquez Dúlcey 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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