VirtualBox is definitely high up on our list of favorite Open Source Software tools. Besides being free, powerful and easy to use, VirtualBox is an excellent virtualization solution for older hardware. We recently installed VirtualBox on an older Dell laptop with only a 1.7GHz Pentium M processor and no dedicated graphics chipset. We had previously maxed the RAM out to 2G so, we had a fairly decent amount of memory to allocate to our Guest Operating Systems. Memory and disk space are rapidly consumed by virtualization software so, we recommend running VirtualBox on a system with 2g of RAM or more, and a hard disk with at least 10G of space to spare. Of course, the first thing we did was see how far we could push our laptop, with VirtualBox running applications inside of a Guest OS, while throwing our normal workload at the Ubuntu 10.04 Host OS, and the answer was, pretty far… until we inevitably broke it. That’s what we like to do here, break stuff… Continue reading
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