[ubuntu-uk] Booting to ubuntu with VM, for now -- advice needed

[Tim Powys-Lybbe]

On 11 May at 1:15, doug livesey <biot023 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi -- so this is being typed from an Ubuntu VM under Mac OSX. I've
> given up the hope of dual-booting for now -- maybe I'll try again
> sometime later with 10.04. However, I have 8 gig RAM on my MBP, yet
> seem only to be able to assign less than 4 gig to my ubuntu image in
> VirtualBox -- I'm guessing because VirtualBox isn't clever enough to
> figure out that I have two modules (both report okay in Snow Leopard).
> Is it possible to run a VM that has access to the majority (or,
> potentially, all) of your processor and RAM? Is there a better tool
> than VirtualBox that would allow me to do this? I don't want to get
> too invested in this image if there's a better way to do it out there.

VMWare Fusion will provide slightly more.  Here I have one partition
running with 4 cores, out of the 8 on the MacPro, though it says I can
use up to 8.  Further I can use up to 5.5 GBytes before, they say, 'if
higher, memory swapping may occur'.

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Tim Powys-Lybbe                                           tim at powys.org
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