[ale] Ubuntu in VirtualBox

Narahari 'n' Savitha savithari at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 22:26:26 EDT 2012


I do what you are doing and currently I have 5 vdi's without any trouble.
So I guess we should be ok.

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Michael Campbell <
michael.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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