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Are there any opinions on which Linux disribution would provide the best performing host for VirtualBox?

Thanks,
Nick

Hi, Sorry if this is not the most appropriate forum but none of the others seemed particularly well suited. Just wondering if anyone has done a study of VirtualBox's performance under differing Host OSs. For example does a basic install of Windows Server 2008 R2 provide better or worse performance f...

Hi All, I am initially trying to setup an environment to run virtualized Win2003. Currently have running Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop (AMD64) with Virtualbox (virtualbox-2.1_2.1.0-41146_Ubuntu_intrepid_amd64.deb) hosting Win2003. However I have hit a few problems. Any suggestions would be appreciated. 1). Vi...

Hi All, It is looking like I need to give up on using Ubuntu as the VirtualBox Host OS because it cannot support Adaptec SCSI controllers. Question is which Linux to try next? For the 29320 card the Adaptec site has drivers for the following: Rad Hat Linux SuSE Linux United Linux and Linux Driver so...

Sasquatch / Terry, I take your point that the partition containing the virtual machines should be ext3 rather than NTFS, my reason for NTFS was so that I could also use Win2k3 as a host OS to the same virtual machines if it became necessary. As for the hardware SCSI controller problem I notice that ...

OK thanks for the help so far. Now got Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop (AMD64) running almost fine with VirtualBox 2.1.0 hosting Windows 2003 Server Standard. Now I say almost, a few minor problems: 1). Ubuntu reports the following error at boot: Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole Please enable the ...

Well finally made some progress and got a basic install of Ubuntu 8.10 installed .

First problem I have encountered is that shares on other Windows machines (Win2k3) are not accessible. Machines can be seen but no shares visible within each machine.

Any ideas?

Yep, of course. Just that I wondered if there was a minimal Ubuntu install or similar first.

Hi Terry, I had a few problems with nVidea hardware support but have now finally got Ubuntu 8.10 (AMD64) installed and working correctly. Next stage is obviously to install VirtualBox. Only question is I notice that Ubuntu ships with OpenOffice and various other tools which as it is going to be used...

Hi All, Any suggestions which Linux flavour is best for a minimal install for Hosting VirtualBox only? The idea is them to run various Windows VMs within this, and in the future to also experiment with various flavours of Linux hosted within this environmenmt. One thing I guess I should point out is...