Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:14:17 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@intranet.com.mx> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd, Virtual OSs and GUI Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK3x_4raEKLYdvr2AREd-9cAjYUE9bLYp4wL78WD9K=2dQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3401304023-313529491@intranet.com.mx> References: <3401304023-313529491@intranet.com.mx>
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On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@intranet.com.mx>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
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