[ale] Virtualbox in a junky home network

[Wolf Halton]

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.

Wolf Halton
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On Aug 5, 2013 12:01 AM, "Dustin Strickland" <dustin.h.strickland at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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 pretty simple other than using hideously outdated hardware.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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
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