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Re: how much base and video memory to allocate for Windows XP Pro SP3 guest OS via VirtualBox/Ubuntu - please help

From "Adam" <adam@no_thanks.com>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux.ubuntu, comp.sys.laptops, microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Subject Re: how much base and video memory to allocate for Windows XP Pro SP3 guest OS via VirtualBox/Ubuntu - please help
Date 2011-06-04 21:49 -0700
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"Aragorn" <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Saturday 04 June 2011 22:06 in alt.os.linux.ubuntu, somebody
> identifying as Adam wrote...
>
> > System:    ASUS N61JQ laptop
> > RAM:    8 GB
> > Graphics:    ATI Radeon Mobility 5730 (1 GB DDR3 VRAM)
> > Host OS:    Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
> > Guest OS:    Windows XP Pro SP3 (via VirtualBox)
> > Base Memory:    4096 MB (?)
> > Video Memory:    128 MB (?)
> >
> > Given the following ...
> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888137
> >
> > How much base and video memory is recommended for
> > Windows XP Pro SP3?
>
> You did not state what you intend to do inside the Windows virtual
> machine.  Personally I would recommend about 512 MB to 1 GB base memory
> and about 64 MB video memory.  These numbers correspond to the
> specifications of a pretty decent home/office computer at the time
> Windows XP was released.
>
> Also, I'm not familiar with that type of laptop, but check whether it
> has hardware support for virtualization, and if so, turn that on in the
> BIOS's set-up utility.  It will greatly improve the performance of
> whatever runs inside the virtual machine if you're going to use
> VirtualBox (or VMWare) as your virtual machine monitor.
>
> --
> *Aragorn*
> (registered GNU/Linux user #223157)


Thanks, and good point.  I primarily run the system in WinXP since
I'm a relative newbie in Ubuntu.  So, I do practically everything there.

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how much base and video memory to allocate for Windows XP Pro SP3 guest OS via VirtualBox/Ubuntu - please help "Adam" <adam@no_thanks.com> - 2011-06-04 13:06 -0700
  Re: how much base and video memory to allocate for Windows XP Pro SP3 guest OS via VirtualBox/Ubuntu - please help Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2011-06-04 21:37 -0400
    Re: how much base and video memory to allocate for Windows XP Pro SP3 guest OS via VirtualBox/Ubuntu - please help "Adam" <adam@no_thanks.com> - 2011-06-04 22:25 -0700
  Re: how much base and video memory to allocate for Windows XP Pro SP3 guest OS via VirtualBox/Ubuntu - please help Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid> - 2011-06-05 03:45 +0200
    Re: how much base and video memory to allocate for Windows XP Pro SP3 guest OS via VirtualBox/Ubuntu - please help "Adam" <adam@no_thanks.com> - 2011-06-04 21:49 -0700
      Re: how much base and video memory to allocate for Windows XP Pro SP3 guest OS via VirtualBox/Ubuntu - please help Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid> - 2011-06-05 07:00 +0200
        Re: how much base and video memory to allocate for Windows XP Pro SP3 guest OS via VirtualBox/Ubuntu - please help "Adam" <adam@no_thanks.com> - 2011-06-04 22:30 -0700
          Re: how much base and video memory to allocate for Windows XP Pro SP3 guest OS via VirtualBox/Ubuntu - please help Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2011-06-05 06:27 -0400
            Re: how much base and video memory to allocate for Windows XP Pro SP3 guest OS via VirtualBox/Ubuntu - please help "Adam" <adam@no_thanks.com> - 2011-06-05 14:04 -0700
              Re: how much base and video memory to allocate for Windows XP Pro SP3 guest OS via VirtualBox/Ubuntu - please help "Adam" <adam@no_thanks.com> - 2011-06-05 14:23 -0700
                Re: how much base and video memory to allocate for Windows XP Pro SP3 guest OS via VirtualBox/Ubuntu - please help Patok <crazy.div.patok@gmail.com> - 2011-06-05 18:00 -0400
                Re: how much base and video memory to allocate for Windows XP Pro SP3 guest OS via VirtualBox/Ubuntu - please help "Adam" <adam@no_thanks.com> - 2011-06-05 18:16 -0700
                Re: how much base and video memory to allocate for Windows XP Pro SP3 guest OS via VirtualBox/Ubuntu - please help HoneyMonster <someone@someplace.invalid> - 2011-06-05 22:21 +0000
                Re: how much base and video memory to allocate for Windows XP Pro SP3 guest OS via VirtualBox/Ubuntu - please help "Adam" <adam@no_thanks.com> - 2011-06-05 17:36 -0700
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