[AuckLUG] Running multiple operating systems simultaneously

[Ravi Chemudugunta]

how much total ram do you have ... this was when I was using it on 256 ;)
not cool, vmware loaded and ran slow where as vbox would kill my machine.

On 7/26/07, Michael <michael.auckland at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/25/07, Ravi Chemudugunta <chemuduguntar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > virtual box hogs memory like crazy! make sure you have lots of ram if
> you do
> > use it
> >
>
> I found that it is no difference between virtualbox and vmware for RAM
> usage,
> running both of them for a while and memory usage seems to be the same:
>
> VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 363m 324m  13m S   21  8.0 270:46.58 VirtualBox
> 262m 120m  24m S   11  3.0   1086:23 firefox-bin
> 288m 254m  23m S    6  6.3 649:57.73 Xorg
> 365m 300m 289m S    4  7.4   1039:06 vmware-vmx
>
> --
> --
> Michael
>
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