[ale] Ubuntu in VirtualBox

[Wolf Halton]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Michael Campbell
<michael.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I've been running Ubuntu 11 in a VM under VirtualBox with no problems for
> some time now.
>
> Had a quick question I don't know if it's vbox related; is there any
> (practical) limit to the number of VDIs files (or drives, as it appears to
> vbox and ubuntu) I can hang on the vbox SATA controller?  Will it just keep
> assigning /dev/sd[a-z] device files to them?
>
> Thanks
>
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I think your first bottleneck will be RAM, followed by processor
count, though I can not vouch for the second part, I do not have but
4Gig RAM on either of my test machines.

Wolf


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