Installing Visual studio on Windows 7

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borkoborko39
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Installing Visual studio on Windows 7

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Hi i really like Linux and im using Manjaro but at school we learn Visual Studio and Linux cant install software like this.Can i install in VirtualBox Windows 7 and install Visual Studio Cummunity there?And how much ram and etc i would need to set?Im on laptop 4 core, 4GB ram and integrated radeon.
BasMevissen
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Re: Installing Visual studio on Windows 7

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Yes, you can. I did this myself and it works fine. However in your case, you might consider adding more RAM. I would recommend having something like 4-8GB available to the guest, depending on how big your applications are. You could start with 2GB for the guest and extend later of course. Disk space will be at least 20 GB. I would recommend having at least a growing guest disk of 64 or better 128 GB size.
Don't forget that installing stuff and updating it makes the virtual disk grow quite a lot, more that the occupied space when everything is installed and up to date.
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