<p>virtualbox reserves the ram quantity you set. XP can function on a little less ram sometimes but whatever you define is all reserved and untouchable by host for anything else. I was disappointed by performance of host and guest with less than 2GB host ram. I can run xp and win7 VMs on 4GB Ram and a core duo with 2 cores from 2008. P4 I had could not do virtualization at all. VMs use ram to emulate processor cores. <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 5, 2013 12:01 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"><div><div>I wanted to ask a quick question before I invest the time in trying to figure out how to make it work. Before I begin I would like to throw two things out there. One, I am broke and use a bunch of bizarre second-hand thrown-together machines for my home network. Two, I still play DooM. I've gotten my younger brother into it and he's started to take an interest in making maps. However, there is no quality software for DooM map-making on Linux and the community-standard program for Windows doesn't run under WINE.<br>
<br></div>Now, I shall elaborate a bit on that first point. My home network is pretty simple other than using hideously outdated hardware. I have a main desktop(which might be analogous to a workstation in another setup), running Linux Mint 15 KDE on a Core 2 Quad Q8200. Good enough, but it's easy to bog down since I'm not the only one in the house that uses it. This is the one I use for personal storage, all other Linux PCs in the house grab /home from here. I'm also using an old I-don't-even-know-what with LM XFCE 14 on a Pentium 4 dual-core as a headless NFS server for all of the DooM mods we have, and several other irrelevant purposes. There are also my 2 old P3 Latitudes running Salix LXDE and my mom's Win7 Compaq which don't contribute anything to the network.<br>
<br></div>The machine I want to focus on is the one I haven't yet mentioned. It was, at one point in time, a laptop. And then it wasn't. And then it was bolted into the drywall... And then in a monitor case. And then in an ASUS motherboard box. Now, I've rigged up one final case, took the LCD off and have been running it as a headless media server. I've elected this machine to also take care of running XP in Virtualbox so that my brother can make his maps. However, I've never run any VM software before, so I'm not too(read:not at all) familiar with the limitations of it, including what type of integration you could have with the host OS.<br>
<br>Ideally, I would be able to connect through RDP or some other means to run the program, do the dirty work, and save it. It would then be available on the Pentium machine's DooM mod NFS, and thus to every other machine. Whichever one is convenient to use at the moment would be able to test the map locally, rather than having run the game on the VM, which I see as slow, inefficient, and ugly(as it would require me having scattered copies of mods everywhere). Would such a setup be possible?<br>
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