OK, 3D acceleration isn't an issue for me. Essentially, if I ended up running Ubuntu with XP in a VM for Office and The Bat, I'd mostly need to be able to print from MS Office.
I take it that, installing XP on the VM, I'd have to register it with Microsoft just as though I were installing it on a PC in the normal way? How often can one do that with the same copy of XP, anyway?
And how much RAM is a decent amount? I have a dual-core CPU, but only 1GB to play with on this machine, and as it's about two years old I'm not sure whether it'd be worth it to invest in hardware upgrades. Especially as I'm also running low on hard disk space on it...
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Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009 19:30 (UTC)I take it that, installing XP on the VM, I'd have to register it with Microsoft just as though I were installing it on a PC in the normal way? How often can one do that with the same copy of XP, anyway?
And how much RAM is a decent amount? I have a dual-core CPU, but only 1GB to play with on this machine, and as it's about two years old I'm not sure whether it'd be worth it to invest in hardware upgrades. Especially as I'm also running low on hard disk space on it...