David C. Rankin wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
Alexey Eremenko pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> wrote:
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 07:31, Kai Ponte wrote:
Just thought I'd happily report that openSUSE 10.3 seems to run Vista under Virtualbox very nicely. So far Vista hasn't crashed once, and 10.3 handles multiple tasks very well. Two questions:
1) Is this a multi-core or multi-processor system?
Guest VM is always uniprocessor. Vista works fine with that. Of course CPU must be fast (2 GHz) and have 1 GB of RAM.
2) How does Vista cope with the virtualized graphics adaptor? (I was under the impression it required a heavy-duty graphics card.)
Vista needs good video card for advanced 3D effects (Aero Glass). It can work in basic mode with standard VGA card. The Vista experience is bad without it.
How is Vista good? First time I booted into Vista and tried to use the remote that came with the laptop to adjust the volume the thing froze solid. Other minor things will freeze the system tight. And this is with booting into the hardware *not* a VM.
Like anything else, once you strip the crap off it and turn off the unnecessary junk, it'll run just fine. I bought a reconditioned Toshiba p205, 17" display, Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-58, 2G, and 160G laptop for $513 (including shipping) and Vista Home Premium came installed. Even with Aero Glass doing it's thing, I have no problems at all. Once all the UAE or whatever it is called was disabled, and a few other tweaks from the web to get rid of annoyances, vista just whistles along. I can't see any benefit over XP and aero pales in comparison to compiz hands down.
Of course I had to dump the 160G drive that came with it, install a new 320G, Partition it 60G for vista, the rest for openSuSE. I boot back every once in a while just to keep current on updates. It still runs great for that purpose;-)
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