<p dir="ltr">Share out the file space you want and use a LAN IP for the VM. So no VM nat behind real sys - use a bridged network. Use a windows workgroup name and then Linux can easily connect with a cifs mount. Use a remote desktop tool to run the VM.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 5, 2013 10:09 AM, "Dustin Strickland" <<a href="mailto:dustin.h.strickland@gmail.com">dustin.h.strickland@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">It's the laptop I'm using for a media server. I can't recall the exact type of processor, but it's some sort of Intel mobile processor, > 2 GHz with slightly less than 3 GB of RAM and a 250 GB 7200 RPM HDD. I know it can handle running a VM(even the Pentium-dual core machine can handle that with relative ease, but its integrated graphics doesn't support 3d acceleration, which I need for the program I'm running). My main question is how(or if it's even possible) to integrate the file system of the virtual XP machine into my home network. I'm going to be using it for making maps, which I want to make available on the DooM mod NFS machine. That way all the other computers in the network can access the maps and test them locally.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:07 AM, JD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com" target="_blank">jdp@algoloma.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Sorry, after all the background, I lost the question - which machine did you<br>
want to try and run WinXP inside virtualbox on? CPU, RAM, Disk specs for it?<br>
<br>
VirtualBox might run on CPUs less than a C2D, but I wouldn't. If you care about<br>
VM performance, read this article:<br>
<a href="http://www.jdpfu.com/2012/09/14/solution-for-slow-ubuntu-in-virtualbox" target="_blank">http://www.jdpfu.com/2012/09/14/solution-for-slow-ubuntu-in-virtualbox</a> It is<br>
the basis of my virtualbox performance presentation.<br>
<div><div><br>
On 08/04/2013 11:58 PM, Dustin Strickland wrote:<br>
> I wanted to ask a quick question before I invest the time in trying to figure<br>
> out how to make it work. Before I begin I would like to throw two things out<br>
> there. One, I am broke and use a bunch of bizarre second-hand thrown-together<br>
> machines for my home network. Two, I still play DooM. I've gotten my younger<br>
> brother into it and he's started to take an interest in making maps. However,<br>
> there is no quality software for DooM map-making on Linux and the<br>
> community-standard program for Windows doesn't run under WINE.<br>
><br>
> Now, I shall elaborate a bit on that first point. My home network is pretty<br>
> simple other than using hideously outdated hardware. I have a main desktop(which<br>
> might be analogous to a workstation in another setup), running Linux Mint 15 KDE<br>
> on a Core 2 Quad Q8200. Good enough, but it's easy to bog down since I'm not the<br>
> only one in the house that uses it. This is the one I use for personal storage,<br>
> all other Linux PCs in the house grab /home from here. I'm also using an old<br>
> I-don't-even-know-what with LM XFCE 14 on a Pentium 4 dual-core as a headless<br>
> NFS server for all of the DooM mods we have, and several other irrelevant<br>
> purposes. There are also my 2 old P3 Latitudes running Salix LXDE and my mom's<br>
> Win7 Compaq which don't contribute anything to the network.<br>
><br>
> The machine I want to focus on is the one I haven't yet mentioned. It was, at<br>
> one point in time, a laptop. And then it wasn't. And then it was bolted into the<br>
> drywall... And then in a monitor case. And then in an ASUS motherboard box. Now,<br>
> I've rigged up one final case, took the LCD off and have been running it as a<br>
> headless media server. I've elected this machine to also take care of running XP<br>
> in Virtualbox so that my brother can make his maps. However, I've never run any<br>
> VM software before, so I'm not too(read:not at all) familiar with the<br>
> limitations of it, including what type of integration you could have with the<br>
> host OS.<br>
><br>
> Ideally, I would be able to connect through RDP or some other means to run the<br>
> program, do the dirty work, and save it. It would then be available on the<br>
> Pentium machine's DooM mod NFS, and thus to every other machine. Whichever one<br>
> is convenient to use at the moment would be able to test the map locally, rather<br>
> than having run the game on the VM, which I see as slow, inefficient, and<br>
> ugly(as it would require me having scattered copies of mods everywhere). Would<br>
> such a setup be possible?<br>
><br>
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