Re: laptop recommendations to run Virtual Box vms'
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:47:11 +0000
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Our workgroup got new Dell Inspiron laptops with 8GB and Win7 Pro. I wiped it and did a fresh install of Win10 Pro, getting rid of all the junk Dell adds. Also bumped up to 16GB of memory and swapped the 1TB hard drive for a 240GB SSD. Very nice performance.
I've run VB on Win7 and 10 laptops and towers for a long time with Ubuntu as the Guest OS. It's wonderful. Haven't made any of my VMs a DB host, just run SSH terminals, SQL Developer, Firefox, etc., so can't say about memory/performance for DBs.
Definitely recommend a from-scratch install of Win10. It's a MUCH smaller footprint without the stuff Dell, etc. adds.
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org> on behalf of Jeff Chirco <backseatdba_at_gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2016 2:22 PM
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Subject: OT: laptop recommendations to run Virtual Box vms'
Hey looking for opinions, I am working on getting a new laptop from work, my primary workstation is a desktop so the laptops are mostly a dumb terminal to just remote desktop from. But I would like to use this laptop as a sandbox and install Virtual Box and host a some VM's with Oracle database and EM to play with. I have not really done any work with Virtual Box so I am just wondering if 8gb of RAM is good enough or should I try to get 16gb. And I will try to get 256gb SSD. Anybody have recommendations. Our company typically buys Dell Latitude's but I am looking at the Yoga 900.
Thanks,
Jeff
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