[dba-Tech] FW: Your Blueprint: Optimizing Your Desktop Using VirtualBox

Max Wanadoo max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Fri Sep 25 06:16:08 CDT 2009


aaahhh.  Guest Editions sounds good. Thanks for that.
I too have an HP Pavilian, but the slim version.
I saw today that they had discontinued it and I am a bit peeved at
that as I have only had it a couple of months.
max


On 25/09/2009, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:
> None that I can think of, other than to make sure you've got plenty of space
> available to store the VBs. Another consideration is 32- v. 64-bit. My HP
> Pavilion a1450n has an AMD duo core and I run Windows Server 64-bit on it. I
> kicked it up to 4GB of RAM, and that really helps a lot. You can do fine in
> 32-bit but you have to stop at 3GB of RAM if you go that way. Also, make
> sure that you install the Guest Additions on each VM that you create. (To do
> so, on the menu of the VM itself, select Machines, then Install Guest
> Additions.) This gives you a bunch of cool features not available otherwise,
> such as copy-paste between VMs or the host, ability to expand the VM window
> size, etc.)
> A.
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Max Wanadoo <max.wanadoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wow. Impressive. I am going to install VB this weekend.
>>
>> Are there any special "precautions" I need take Arthur?
>>
>> Max
>>
>>
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