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Hard drive light on all the time
Posted: 9. Jun 2009, 03:29
by jjolin
Can anyone tell me why the hard drive light is on all the time when running virturalbox with windows xp? I have 1 gig of ram and I have alloted 512 megs memory for vituralbox.
Jim
Re: Hard drive light on all the time
Posted: 9. Jun 2009, 03:41
by Perryg
Welcome to the forum,
You probably nee more RAM. Excessive HD activity indicates that there is a lot of disk swapping.
Re: Hard drive light on all the time
Posted: 10. Jun 2009, 03:16
by jjolin
Thanks for the reply. That sure fits the situation. I thought I read that 512mb was enough for XP and VirtualBox....guess not.
Jim
Re: Hard drive light on all the time
Posted: 10. Jun 2009, 09:25
by fixedwheel
jjolin wrote:I thought I read that 512mb was enough for XP and VirtualBox....guess not.
384M is enough for a bare XP, how much more is needed depends on running applications