Adam wrote:
System: ASUS N61JQ laptop
RAM: 8 GB
Graphics: ATI Radeon Mobility 5730 (1 GB DDR3 VRAM) Host
OS:
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Guest OS: Windows XP Pro SP3 (via VirtualBox) Base
Memory:
4096 MB (?)
Video Memory: 128 MB (?)
Given the following ...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888137
How much base and video memory is recommended for Windows XP
Pro SP3?
You did not state what you intend to do inside the Windows
virtual machine. Personally I would recommend about 512 MB
to 1 GB base memory and about 64 MB video memory. These
numbers correspond to the specifications of a pretty decent
home/office computer at the time Windows XP was released.
[...]
Thanks, and good point. I primarily run the system in WinXP
since I'm a relative newbie in Ubuntu. So, I do practically
everything there.
In that case, I would advise reserving some 2 GB of main system
memory, and perhaps 128 MB to 256 MB for video memory (if
you're going to be doing OpenGL stuff or gaming in the virtual
machine - for which you will need hardware virtualization
extensions anyway as it will be too slow without them). That
should give you a very royal amount of headroom. ;-)
--
*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
Hmmm ... I wonder why VirtualBox only allows 128 MB max for
video memory. Yeah, royal ... I like that.
See the bottom posting here.
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8319&start=0
Paul
Thanks, here's the post referred to here ...
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Re: More video memory?
by Perryg » 8. Jun 2010, 17:15
The original post was old. VBox has increased the top to 256MB. You
should be able to change it in the GUI or by CLI. VBoxManage
modifyvm <uuid|name> [--vram <vramsize in MB>] Up to 256MB not
more.
It is restricted to no more then 256 MB
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My VBox GUI (v4.0.8 r71778) only goes up to 128 MB max for video
memory. Can't increase it further via the GUI, which I would like to
be able to do. How do I make my GUI version allow more than 128 MB
video memory? Don't I already have the latest GUI version?
Seems like monitor count would have to be higher in order to increase
video memory above 128 MB.