[ale] Ubuntu in VirtualBox

[Michael Campbell]

Sorry, I was unclear.

I'm a developer and I'd like to create a number of VDI's/drives for various
versions of tools I use; Db2 version x, version x + 1, Oracle 10, 11,
various versions of application servers, etc.   Ideally I'd like to have
just that one thing on each VDI, then I can attach whatever versions of
things I need for a particular programming job (my company does
banking/financial software, so we need to try to use what the banks already
have installed and their versions of stuff are all over the place).

So... my question really was, if I have a bunch of VDIs with all this
stuff, is there any practical limit to how many I can hang off the virtual
SATA controller at a time?  I'm up to 4 right now (/dev/sda through
/dev/sdd) and it's working, but if I split this stuff up like I want, I
might get up to 8 or so.

Thanks

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Wolf Halton <wolf.halton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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