[ale] Virtualbox in a junky home network

[Jim Kinney]

Share out the file space you want and use a LAN IP for the VM. So no VM nat
behind real sys - use a bridged network. Use a windows workgroup name and
then Linux can easily connect with a cifs mount. Use a remote desktop tool
to run the VM.
On Aug 5, 2013 10:09 AM, "Dustin Strickland" <dustin.h.strickland at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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 simple other than using hideously outdated hardware.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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