From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 12 23:14:19 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29B091065675 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:14:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B29118FC0A for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:14:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyd10 with SMTP id 10so1665251eyd.13 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:14:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=ejmafSWZoM/y9xdGxrekISD6eHxcIOb5NnD0QsInBOE=; b=IYIXVnRoQ0BRlIJk8T2jnFIs7dcxjWV0fAxfam4v3j2DmTNUDXohGloLyx0UKN+F34 tx4AdrVn2uEQsLKoGysJK/9+JpjZVv/0HQhQbLPzwOgm4NNhs1eiRp6BS2eaPZc2+RQD W6670wdD6wMjYdiuQ9tHwImxnuL8oC+5RA46w= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.75.27 with SMTP id w27mr1818320faj.11.1318461257586; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:14:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.124.197 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:14:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <3401304023-313529491@intranet.com.mx> References: <3401304023-313529491@intranet.com.mx> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:14:17 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Jorge Biquez Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd, Virtual OSs and GUI X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:14:19 -0000 On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote: It is better to install KDE or GNOME as the base GUI or it is better to have > any other ? (I do not know what could be). > This is one of those ask a hundred different people get 100 different answers. I prefer KDE which would work well for you because both KDE and VirtualBox are built on QT4, a rather large system. KDE isn't really that heavy though relatively speaking. VirtualBox runs great for me and does all you indicated. > > What do you think is the best option to save hardware resources and > accomplish this task ? Something important is that this lab machine will be > connected directly with the ISP (public IP's) and I will need to connect > remotely to control the server and the other OS's. > You will probably want a CPU and chipset that has hardware assist for virtualization, and plenty of RAM for both host and guests. Disk choice should reflect your data capacity, redundancy, and speed needs. A good quality Intel NIC is always nice. > > If I do not need necessarily a GUI running with FreeBSD, what do you > suggest to use? > You don't need a GUI, VirtualBox has a headless mode that handles it for you. By the way the hardware I will use I guess it is enough since it is for > testing only and I won't be connected remotely all the time. The machine is > an "old" Pentium Core 2 Duo, 2GB of ram (its maximum) and a hard disk of > 500gb, also it has an Nvdia card 256Mb (can use the one with the motherboard > if that is a problem) The motherboard is an INtel one. It runs perectly > FreeBSD using it in text mode. As a curios information something in the > motherboard maybe is not compatible with UBuntu . > The hardware you mention likely doesn't have VT-d, and probably has VT-x which is perfectly fine, because to my knowledge you can't use VT-d with VirtualBox yet anyways. -- Adam Vande More