[ale] Virtualbox in a junky home network

[Dustin Strickland]

It's the laptop I'm using for a media server. I can't recall the exact type
of processor, but it's some sort of Intel mobile processor, > 2 GHz with
slightly less than 3 GB of RAM and a 250 GB 7200 RPM HDD. I know it can
handle running a VM(even the Pentium-dual core machine can handle that with
relative ease, but its integrated graphics doesn't support 3d acceleration,
which I need for the program I'm running). My main question is how(or if
it's even possible) to integrate the file system of the virtual XP machine
into my home network. I'm going to be using it for making maps, which I
want to make available on the DooM mod NFS machine. That way all the other
computers in the network can access the maps and test them locally.


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:07 AM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

> Sorry, after all the background, I lost the question - which machine did
> you
> want to try and run WinXP inside virtualbox on? CPU, RAM, Disk specs for
> it?
>
> VirtualBox might run on CPUs less than a C2D, but I wouldn't. If you care
> about
> VM performance, read this article:
> http://www.jdpfu.com/2012/09/14/solution-for-slow-ubuntu-in-virtualbox It is
> the basis of my virtualbox performance presentation.
>
> On 08/04/2013 11:58 PM, Dustin Strickland 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 simple other than using hideously outdated hardware.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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