Well... I have 8GBs of RAM... But the point is: how is the best way to do this migration? How backup data? Il 26/feb/2014 01:01 "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell at gmail.com> ha scritto: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Lists <lists at benjamindsmith.com> wrote: > > >>>> > >>> Hmmm... we have 32bit CentOS 6.3 running both 32bit and 64bit > VirtualBox VMs just fine. > >> Yes, if you want to use KVM you'd need a 64-bit install, but for > >> VirtualBox or VMware Player it should only depend on the CPU > >> capability, not the host OS. > > > > While technically true, I can't imagine wanting to do much with VMs > > without the extra RAM space afforded by 64 bit O/S. Really, 2 (ok, 3) GB > > of RAM is *not enough* to do serious work. I'd strongly suggest starting > > with at least 8 GB of RAM. You can do it with the 2 or so that you have, > > but I wanted to scream with 2 GB using VirtualBox for Windows > > compatibility testing. > > > > 8 GB lets me run a host OS (Fedora) and 2 VMs without too much trouble. > > 3 VMs starts to slow down noticeably, no matter how I tweak the memory > > split. > > I think the CPU hardware support lets virtualbox give RAM to the > guests even if there is more than the 32-bit host OS could use > natively. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >