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Virtual box ought to provide a 1 gig per machine and maybe more if you want.
I think you are in a no win situation. Stay with 32 bit an you loose a bit of ram but go with 64 bit and really gain very little and run the problem of a full upgrade. If test system then go with 64 bit but you will not speed up anything. In fact by the time you end up, the net gain will be nill.
The base system is going to eat up a lot of ram as well the each VM overhead. Even if you move to 64 bit you still can't access all of the 4G. You might get lucky to get 2.2 left for the entire VM. Then you'd have to split that at 120% loss for each vm or more.
Post your systems specs. They may not be fully vm supported.
Thanks for that depressing news, I think this should be enough information -
Code:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x70000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 8 64228+ 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 9 1314 10485760 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 1314 30965 238176090+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 30966 60801 239657670 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 30966 40151 73786513+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 40152 60801 165871093+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x75e28ca9
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 8 64228+ 6 FAT16
/dev/sdb2 9 1314 10490445 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb3 * 1315 30966 238179690 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb4 30967 60802 239657670 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 30967 40152 73786513+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 40153 60802 165871093+ 83 Linux
Code:
uname -a
Linux davidpc 2.6.24.7-desktop586-3mnb #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 16:55:50 EDT 2009 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz GNU/Linux
The reason why I want to do this, is because I want to run Oracle linux, if the worst comes to the worst I will have to replace my Mandriva installation with Oracle Linux.
I had that problem with an older machine, I had to tell the kernel how much ram there was. You can use this kernel parameter.
mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
to see the whole system memory or for test.
[X86-32] Use together with memmap= to avoid physical
address space collisions. Without memmap= PCI devices
could be placed at addresses belonging to unused RAM.
Add it to the list of kernel parameters in grub.conf or lilo.conf (depending on the bootloader you use).
They have I think a VM image already on their site. Download it and run it.
I will try to download it when I have export validation
At the moment when I run Oracle Linux on my virtual machine it gets slow.
If I don't have any browsers on my machine and Oracle Linux is only in command line it is possible. However sometimes I want to check something on the internet!
---------- Post added 02-21-11 at 10:55 AM ----------
Quote:
Originally Posted by BoraxMan
I had that problem with an older machine, I had to tell the kernel how much ram there was. You can use this kernel parameter.
mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
to see the whole system memory or for test.
[X86-32] Use together with memmap= to avoid physical
address space collisions. Without memmap= PCI devices
could be placed at addresses belonging to unused RAM.
Add it to the list of kernel parameters in grub.conf or lilo.conf (depending on the bootloader you use).
"when I run Oracle Linux on my virtual machine it gets slow." because your processor doesn't support VT-x.
That makes sense thanks. So basically my choices are :-
1) Install Oracle linux on my machine as the main operating system - not ideal but possible
2) Install it on a spare machine - which I don't have at the moment.
3) - I would guess there is no third choice.
4)Install a different linux which you can use to run Oracle - not much of an improvement over (1) nor pratically much different - need to back up my data and install it etc.
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