[Ti] Virtual PC question

[Chris Olson]

On Dec 19, 2005, at 10:29 AM, mac2 wrote:

> I will soon have a new Powerbook 1.67 Ghz and, in addition to Mac  
> OS X, I need to run Solaris 10 x86.

Another thing you're going to find out really fast is that a  
PowerBook is a pretty week-kneed unit to run Solaris.  Solaris runs  
like a three legged dog on real x86 hardware, much less trying to run  
it on emulated hardware.  Solaris is a 64-bit SysV Unix, and the port  
to x86 didn't go all that well.  It's passable on a dual Opteron 64- 
bit system, but most definitely not 32-bit x86 systems.  Anything  
that runs on x86 Solaris is SLOW and sucks up a ton of memory, which  
in VirtualPC means lots of swapping.

You need a minimum of 256 MB physical RAM for your virtual machine,  
and the disk I/O time kills performance big time when it starts to  
swap.  If you decide to run Gnome, be prepared to do a lot of finger  
tapping on the desk waiting.......and waiting......and  
waiting.......to even open something simple like a terminal window.
-- 
Chris

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