new box

[NoOp]

On 05/31/2009 11:18 AM, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
>> Just built a new machine...
>> AMD quad-core X64 Phenom 2 on a GIGABYTE mobo with an NVIDIA XFX GTS 1GB
>> DDR3 graphics card
>> flying 16GB of Corsair 1600 DDR RAM.
>> (originally a game box for my son but he bought an alien so it's mine)
>> 
>> It seems most of the components will run with Ubuntu, but the dilemma is
>> this -
>> I want to run Ubuntu as a primary with Win as a virtualbox within it. I've
>> had some scary slow performance problems in the past
>> running mickysoft in virtual under Ubuntu.
>> 
>> Have others here on the list got an opinion strongly in 1 direction or the
>> other (win w/ubuntu as virtual vs ubuntu w/win as virtual?)
> 
> I run WinXP in VirtualBox under Ubuntu and it's perfectly
> snappy/responsive and doesn't use any swap.

+1 on VirtualBox. VirtualBox bug fixes have been pretty phenomenal since
Sun took over:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

You can now even add the PUEL version as a repository to keep updated:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
See: "Debian-based Linux distributions: Add one of the following lines
according to your distribution to your /etc/apt/sources.list:"

Note: don't forget to add the signing key.