On 14/12/10 20:37, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I'd go with the other recommendations and use Virtualbox I think
That suits me, it was my default choice anyway!
The only thing I would say is for a Win 7 machine you are really very short on RAM as it is. If you try and dedicate more than 128MB of Ram to that VM things are going to get very sticky for both the host and the guest machines.
That's what I thought too. (Basically, how I arrived at where I am now is that I knew the PC, which is already on site, had plenty of RAM, and built the VM in Virtualbox, stuck all the stuff on a DVD to ship to site (I can install it remotely but transferring the files would have taken ages otherwise!) only to discover that the "plenty of RAM" is only 1GB when I go to install.)
That said, I dropped the memory of my VM down to 256MB (it was going to be 512MB), and tried it, and it seems to be working fine with another memory hungry app also running, which the VM will ultimately replace so that will give me some breathing space when I get that far. Mind you, I haven't let it running so I can't draw any serious conclusions just yet.