Which Windows for Virtual Box ? (F16, USB, etc)

[David]

On 4/27/2012 8:54 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
> On 04/26/2012 06:34 PM, Claude Jones wrote:
>> On 04/25/2012 06:10 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
>>> I'm using Windows XP in Virtual Box, mainly because I had a spare
>>> license for it.  I give it 1.0GB  and it does OK.
>>
>> surely, you must mean 10GB - I just spent considerable time yesterday
>> struggling with space issues on two XP VMs that had been allotted 10 GB
>> - unless the OP is really struggling with space issues and is absolutely
>> certain they will never install much on their XP VMs, I would recommend
>> 15 GB allocations - hard drive space is cheap
>>
> 1GB (memory) and 30GB (disk)


Just as you can add 'additional hard drives' to a real computer you can
add multiple VM 'drives' to a Virtualbox VM system.

Windows XP, for this example could have a C:\, and a D:\, and an E:\,
etc. Saving one slot for the optical drive of course.  :-)

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  David