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Re: Testers wanted!

From "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.misc
Subject Re: Testers wanted!
Date 2014-05-08 10:21 +0100
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"Nils M Holm" <news2009@t3x.org> wrote in message 
news:bt0u37Fs4f3U1@mid.individual.net...
> James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just an FYI: if you have a machine which is 64-bit capable but is running 
>> a
>> 32-bit OS you can still run 64-bit virtual guests using something like
>> Oracle VirtualBox
>
> Good to know, thanks!  The box I get will probably be a 1 GHz
> Core 2 Duo. Does this offer sufficient CPU power for virtualization?
> RAM is not so much of a problem, since I would only install CLI-based
> guests.

At least with VirtualBox your CPU should be fine as each guest only uses 
horsepower as required. IME some other emulators such as Bochs use all of 
the CPU. But as long as the guest is not in in infinite loop VirtualBox 
seems to use little of the CPU when the guest is idle.

Further, if necessary you can limit the percentage of the CPU that a given 
guest will be able to take. That's not normally a good idea as it limits the 
guest even when the host's CPU is idle but it can be reassuring to know 
about!

James

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Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-01 13:41 +0000
  Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-01 17:08 -0400
    Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-01 17:15 -0400
    Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-01 18:14 -0400
      Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-02 06:23 +0000
        Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-02 06:13 -0400
          Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-02 06:38 -0400
          Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-02 18:23 +0000
            Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-02 18:42 +0000
              Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-02 21:02 -0400
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 08:00 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-03 08:33 -0400
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 13:40 +0000
  Re: Testers wanted! "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-02 22:02 +0100
    Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 08:11 +0000
      Re: Testers wanted! "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-03 10:22 +0100
        Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 10:03 +0000
        Re: Testers wanted! "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-03 11:02 +0100
          Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 10:58 +0000
            Re: Testers wanted! "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-03 12:44 +0100
              Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 13:42 +0000
    Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 08:21 +0000
      Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 11:03 +0000
  Re: Testers wanted! Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2014-05-03 12:33 +0200
    Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 10:59 +0000
      Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 11:02 +0000
        Re: Testers wanted! Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2014-05-03 13:12 +0200
          Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 11:18 +0000
            Re: Testers wanted! Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2014-05-03 16:14 +0200
              Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 14:28 +0000
  Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-04 21:55 -0400
    Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-05 07:07 +0000
      Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-05 04:13 -0400
        Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-05 04:18 -0400
          Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-05 06:52 -0400
            Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-07 14:49 +0000
              Re: Testers wanted! "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-05-07 20:50 +0100
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-08 08:37 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2014-05-08 10:50 +0200
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-08 08:55 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-05-08 10:21 +0100
                Re: Testers wanted! George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2014-05-08 13:43 -0400
    Re: Testers wanted! Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2014-05-05 20:29 +0200
      Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-05 19:09 -0400
        Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-12 07:06 +0000
          Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-12 16:18 +0000
            Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-12 20:00 -0400
              Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-13 14:24 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-13 17:04 -0400
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-14 16:50 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-14 19:04 -0400
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-16 09:39 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-16 17:33 -0400
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-17 20:25 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-30 04:28 -0400

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