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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I have Windows 7 VM (Virtual Box) on a
Mint host and found for my hardware (old dual core with 4GB Ram -
motherboard maxed out) to use the 32 bit version of Windows with 1
core and about 1 GB of memory assigned seems to work tolerably
well. i need to run a couple of Windows apps for work about 2 or 3
times a month<br>
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On 04/02/2013 06:18 PM, John Pilman wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">I used Virtualbox with a Windows 7 VM on an Ubuntu
host for about a year, and the Windows always dragged. Then I
swapped them and the performance improved greatly. I'm not sure
what was happening, but I got the best performance out of the
Windows guest by assigning it only one CPU. <br>
There have been updates to Virtualbox since then, do it may be
better now. </p>
<p dir="ltr">...John</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 2, 2013 3:07 PM, "Brandon Wood"
<<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:woody@2143.net">woody@2143.net</a>>
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<div dir="ltr">None yet. I've used Virtual Box box for a long
while now; just the other way around; Windows host, Linux
VM. <br>
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I mainly just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing out on
any other options that others may consider to be better.<br>
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Never hurts to ask.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 7:46 PM,
Richard Bronosky <span dir="ltr"><<a
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you are trying to do. What shortcomings have you
encountered?</div>
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<div>All,<br>
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Looking to run Linux (Fedora 18)
on the laptop and move an existing
windows install (yes, yes, I suck,
it sucks, I know, lets move on) in
to a virtual machine.<br>
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Currently doing so using VirtualBox
but I was wondering if anyone suggests
other VM software to use instead. <br>
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Thanks for the input.<br>
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