Freebsd, Virtual OSs and GUI

[Carl Johnson]

Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Jorge Biquez <jbiquez at 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 the OP is going to run a 64-bit OS, then hardware vitualization
assist is *required* for VirtualBox to handle it.  It is not required
when VirtualBox is running a 32-bit OS.  Just another minor detail to
consider.

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Carl Johnson		carlj at peak.org