[ale] Virtualbox in a junky home network

[JD]

Sorry, after all the background, I lost the question - which machine did you
want to try and run WinXP inside virtualbox on? CPU, RAM, Disk specs for it?

VirtualBox might run on CPUs less than a C2D, but I wouldn't. If you care about
VM performance, read this article:
http://www.jdpfu.com/2012/09/14/solution-for-slow-ubuntu-in-virtualbox  It is
the basis of my virtualbox performance presentation.

On 08/04/2013 11:58 PM, Dustin Strickland wrote:
> I wanted to ask a quick question before I invest the time in trying to figure
> out how to make it work. Before I begin I would like to throw two things out
> there. One, I am broke and use a bunch of bizarre second-hand thrown-together
> machines for my home network. Two, I still play DooM. I've gotten my younger
> brother into it and he's started to take an interest in making maps. However,
> there is no quality software for DooM map-making on Linux and the
> community-standard program for Windows doesn't run under WINE.
> 
> Now, I shall elaborate a bit on that first point. My home network is pretty
> simple other than using hideously outdated hardware. I have a main desktop(which
> might be analogous to a workstation in another setup), running Linux Mint 15 KDE
> on a Core 2 Quad Q8200. Good enough, but it's easy to bog down since I'm not the
> only one in the house that uses it. This is the one I use for personal storage,
> all other Linux PCs in the house grab /home from here. I'm also using an old
> I-don't-even-know-what with LM XFCE 14 on a Pentium 4 dual-core as a headless
> NFS server for all of the DooM mods we have, and several other irrelevant
> purposes. There are also my 2 old P3 Latitudes running Salix LXDE and my mom's
> Win7 Compaq which don't contribute anything to the network.
> 
> The machine I want to focus on is the one I haven't yet mentioned. It was, at
> one point in time, a laptop. And then it wasn't. And then it was bolted into the
> drywall... And then in a monitor case. And then in an ASUS motherboard box. Now,
> I've rigged up one final case, took the LCD off and have been running it as a
> headless media server. I've elected this machine to also take care of running XP
> in Virtualbox so that my brother can make his maps. However, I've never run any
> VM software before, so I'm not too(read:not at all) familiar with the
> limitations of it, including what type of integration you could have with the
> host OS.
> 
> Ideally, I would be able to connect through RDP or some other means to run the
> program, do the dirty work, and save it. It would then be available on the
> Pentium machine's DooM mod NFS, and thus to every other machine. Whichever one
> is convenient to use at the moment would be able to test the map locally, rather
> than having run the game on the VM, which I see as slow, inefficient, and
> ugly(as it would require me having scattered copies of mods everywhere). Would
> such a setup be possible?
>