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Dual booting Ubuntu 10 vs VMware install - need advice on this one

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Arkitech

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The primary drive crashed on my main rig so I'm going to reinstall Vista today on a new drive, but I'm debating on whether or not I should dual boot it with Ubuntu or just run it as a VM. My hardware specs are a q6600 at stock with 2gigs of PC5300. I'm unsure if that's enough memory to run Ubuntu under a VM with good performance.

Any thoughts or suggestions on this?
 
I used to give my Ubuntu VM 700MB RAM when I had 3GB total. Now I give it 1.5GB with 6GB total RAM.

You'll probably want to dual boot it unless you're using Ubuntu for really simple stuff. (You could manage, but probably only if you're not doing anything that uses memory in Vista.) Or invest in 4GB of RAM.

You could try VM, and then just install Ubuntu with wubi (dual boot) if VM isn't fast enough. This way you don't have to think about setting up partitions for Ubuntu now. (My Ubuntu installs are usually only 10GB disk space.)
 
I agree with the above, you might struggle with 2GB of RAM. I tried it on my laptop (maxed out at 2GB of RAM), but ended up just dual booting Ubuntu and Win 7 Home Basic.
 
In my case I just gave 50GB to Ubuntu cause I was not sure how much it might need at some point, but that's 50GB out of a 1TB hd. The partition part was really not that difficult.

You will probably want the performance, I am almost certain!
 
Well I got it going, but I'm having a problem hiding my partitions. Not sure how, but I've hid my data drive (D🙂 from Vista, but my 2 partitions reserved for Linux (Ubuntu and soon to be Chromium) both show up in Vista. However, the Vista partition is invisible to Ubuntu.

Is is it possible to hide and unhide partitions from a GUI (like gparted) or is this a task better suited for the console?
 
I currently run Mint primary with a WinXP VirtualBox VM when i simply MUST have windows for something. VB is free of course in the software/package manager and runs windows flawlessly, in full screen mode you cant even tell its a VM. This is only a laptop but I do the same at work as well. I also have plans, once I get the money together, to run Mint here on my main rig with dual monitors. VB has seamless mode where you can run the VM right in with your host OS and can put it on its own monitor but still move both operating systems windows around on either monitor as you please. It is really sexy.
 
I would not even think of running Windows Vista in a virtual machine because Vista requires a fast computer and a lot of RAM. People that gives 100% of RAM to a virtual machine is just asking for problems. The amount of RAM that you should give to a virtual machine is no more than half of your RAM. The reason for this is that the virtual machine program will use some extra memory, so it is best to be selfish to a virtual machine then to give all resources.

Sure you can run Linux in a virtual machine because the memory requirement and processor resource is a lot less than Windows 7. You can give 512 MB of RAM to Linux and it will run great in GUI. If you give two processors to the virtual machine that is running Linux, Linux will utilize the processors better than Windows 7. The amount space that you need for Linux depends how much programs you want installed. For full desktop install, I suggest 16 GB.

I do not recommend Virtualbox because it is not reliable to be used. I suggest VMware Server 1 if you want the best free virtual machine program.
 
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