On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 13:35 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > Wish I had a box with more RAM, so I could try VMware or > Virtualbox. That is something I want to try, but this box only has 512 > MB of RAM. Lanny ---- Download VirtualBox from Sun. Im pretty sure you can run it. On CentOS that is. Just use 254MB for the Host and the gueat. Just split it up. Below is tops output when runing win$ server 2003 while doing domainprep and forestprep for active directory. Processor is a P4 1.7 533MHz Bus UDMA 100 Disks. Although the virtual machine images run on: hdd1 4.13 106.04 157.34 14226701 21109552,, I run one image per drive and not on the system drive. The device block sizes are 4096 and they run the Deadline Scheduler. By no means it not like lightning but it runs better than some on native hardware and serves my purpose. Basically it's a testing machine. I also run CentOS 5.2 on it all on top of CentOS 5.3. Bottom line is I think it is doable with 512MB of RAM. Also this is an older board ICH4 Chipset top - 17:32:45 up 1 day, 13:12, 2 users, load average: 1.50, 1.75, 1.46 Tasks: 107 total, 2 running, 105 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 6.8%us, 74.5%sy, 10.2%ni, 0.4%id, 6.6%wa, 1.1%hi, 0.5%si, 0.0%st Mem: 775132k total, 767532k used, 7600k free, 34268k buffers Swap: 524280k total, 102956k used, 421324k free, 230584k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 10211 root 15 0 353m 296m 14m S 72.5 39.2 51:23.37 VirtualBox JohnStanley