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| 1345894 | 2013-06-15 09:49:00 | I am building a home media pc for my parents. The goal is to have a desktop in one room also connected to the TV. I am going to run VMware over OSX with maybe a linux distro to run XMBC so it will accept a second input from a wireless keyboard. So my questions are, will the linux distro see the hard drive with all the data on it and access it and so can OSX? Also, what hardware will make VMware run more smoothly and less intensively? Please feel free to comment on the project as a whole with any suggestions. Thanks |
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| 1345895 | 2013-06-15 09:51:00 | The more RAM the better if you're running a virtual box. | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1345896 | 2013-06-15 09:54:00 | It will be designed for gaming so I was thinking 8gb? | Nerdtastic (16693) | ||
| 1345897 | 2013-06-15 10:04:00 | It will be designed for gaming so I was thinking 8gb? 8gbs should be fine. Just if you're running a virtual box and want programs to run pretty well in the virtual box, you want the virtual box to have plenty of ram, as well as the main os. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1345898 | 2013-06-15 10:58:00 | Is it processor intensive? Can I use the host OS for gaming as an example, and watch a movie on Linux? BTW which distro should I chose as I was looking for something light but easy to use |
Nerdtastic (16693) | ||
| 1345899 | 2013-06-15 22:57:00 | Is it processor intensive? Can I use the host OS for gaming as an example, and watch a movie on Linux? BTW which distro should I chose as I was looking for something light but easy to use What CPU do you have? Distro - I'm going to say Mint 13, probably MATE. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1345900 | 2013-06-15 23:27:00 | Mint is up to 15 now | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1345901 | 2013-06-16 00:07:00 | Mint is up to 15 now Supported for 9 months. 13 is the LTS, supported until 2017. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1345902 | 2013-06-16 02:48:00 | I am looking at one of the new Haswell i5's? Mint looks good for my purposes. Is there a big difference between the LTS and 15? | Nerdtastic (16693) | ||
| 1345903 | 2013-06-16 03:05:00 | I take it you will be running a hackintosh? | plod (107) | ||
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