nc_jed
September 27th, 2008, 02:03 PM
Folks,
I have VirtualBox 1.6.2 set up on a 2.4 Ghz desktop machine with a couple of Linux and Windows VMs running. I also have a very old laptop (233 Mhz, 128 MB RAM) that I am trying to decide the best *buntu variant to install to. I am currently considering Ubuntu server and XFCE as an add on via apt-get (current Xubuntu has waaaaaaay too much Gnome to run on this machine - even Xubuntu 7.04 (last version I can tell that shipped w/o all the extra Gnome hooks) is a little resource heavy.
Anyway, I know that in VirtualBox, you can determine the amount of system RAM allocated to a VM (which I will do to emulate the target environment), but can you also emulate the host CPUs speed? I feel like this would be a good apples to apples comparison to non-commitally test which distros would function best on my intended target hardware.
- Jed
P.S. For what its worth, I've already tried Puppy and DSL via LiveCD and I just do not like the JWM or the overall layout/set up. I know these are good choices for older HW specs, but please save your breath regarding these 2 options.
I have VirtualBox 1.6.2 set up on a 2.4 Ghz desktop machine with a couple of Linux and Windows VMs running. I also have a very old laptop (233 Mhz, 128 MB RAM) that I am trying to decide the best *buntu variant to install to. I am currently considering Ubuntu server and XFCE as an add on via apt-get (current Xubuntu has waaaaaaay too much Gnome to run on this machine - even Xubuntu 7.04 (last version I can tell that shipped w/o all the extra Gnome hooks) is a little resource heavy.
Anyway, I know that in VirtualBox, you can determine the amount of system RAM allocated to a VM (which I will do to emulate the target environment), but can you also emulate the host CPUs speed? I feel like this would be a good apples to apples comparison to non-commitally test which distros would function best on my intended target hardware.
- Jed
P.S. For what its worth, I've already tried Puppy and DSL via LiveCD and I just do not like the JWM or the overall layout/set up. I know these are good choices for older HW specs, but please save your breath regarding these 2 options.