I've been setting my approaching-outdated desktop computer up as a server and am also trying to get it going as a media center. Here are some specs
-Nvidia 6800gs graphics card
-2gb memory
-Pentium D 805 (predecessor to the core 2 duos)
I'm running Xfce to keep the overhead low. What I'd like to do is run PlayOn in VirtualBox, either in Windows 7 or XP. I'm wondering whether it makes a difference which of those two OS's I use, and how much memory I should allocate to it.
I've currently got Windows 7 with about 800mb memory allocated on a bridged connection uploading at about 400-500KB/s. In both XBMC and my PS3, video is laggy at best (especially Netflix, which is horrible).
Should I switch to XP? Give more memory to the virtual OS? Less? Will it just not work?
It's very unfortunate that Netflix isn't supported in Linux. Otherwise I'd probably be just fine. Thanks for the help!
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