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I'm planning to get a VirtualBox installed on a netbook.

Hardware (either Toshiba NB200-10z or Asus Eee PC 1000HE):
Intel Atom N280 1.66GHz
2G RAM

Host: WinXP

Guest: Linux/Fedora

Does anybody have any experience with the performance of such a setup? I'm going to use the Linux guest mostly for development (Python/Java/C++).

I used to run VirtualBox with the same OS combination on a dual core Intel Centrino (2G RAM) and it worked extremely well. My biggest concern now is: are nebooks with Intel Atom fast enough for this?

Thanks,

Tomma

It will run if you have enough RAM, and some VM apps will run well. However, if you are doing batch compiles and your guest wants to run 100% then this will slug your host XP. XP+single core+CPU-bound processes = bumpy performance.