![]() You'll find a lot of web sites warning against this but it's no more risky then running out of both RAM and disk space with the paging file active. If you have a lot of memory available then you can improve speed in a XP guest by disabling the paging file. ![]() If you're building a new system and plan to use VMs a lot then I recommend getting at least 2GB of RAM. If your host is a bit short on RAM then try switching to a lighter desktop like XFCE (Xubuntu), LXDE (Ubuntu Lite), Openbox, or even just xterm. For the VM you want to allocate enough for your guest applications but not exceeding what the host can provide else what the guest thinks is RAM will be paged out to disk by the host and it gets incredibly slow. Open up Firefox with a bunch of tabs with Flash, Java, and Acrobat plug-ins active and you can easily use up 1GB total. The host desktop (Gnome in my case) also needs a lot, how much depends on what native apps you have running. XP will function with 256MB of memory allocated to the VM but you'll need more for any app larger than Notepad. This setup works more or less but there are a few bugs and performance problems I've had to find workarounds for.The first thing you need is RAM obviously. I don't actually have to use XP for them as they function under Wine but I've been too busy to reinstall them and recreate their configurations. I use XP in VMware Player to run some CAD applications on my Ubuntu system.
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