Some things you might want to know:
1. When you boot windows on the real HW, it creates a HW profile, let's
name it X.
2. When you configure the windows partition (Under Linux) to be a drive
for a VBox VM,
and you boot that machine, then windows will detect that it is
running on different HW
than original HW profile, and will ask for a different installation
key, else it will
declare your windows under VBOx VM to be an illegal copy.
That's what happened to me and other colleagues.
On 08/14/2016 02:14 PM, Drew Samson wrote:
Hello,
I've been using Fedora inside Virtual Box on a Windows 7 host for a
few years now so I can learn Fedora / Linux before taking the plunge
and unplug from Windows more permanently. I think I'm ready to take
the plunge and build a new desktop with Fedora 24 being my primary os
and at most run Windows (should I need it for some reason) inside a
VBox vm. I suspect running Fedora inside a vm is really different than
running it right off the hardware like changing a hdd controller with
a mouse click is much faster & easier than swapping a cable and/or
setting or adding an adapter so I'm trying to do my homework before
spending $.
My question is: what hardware would someone recommend for building a
non-gaming high-end desktop? About the only non-negotiable element are
my 2 30" dell u3011 monitors both running at 2560x1600. Since I'm a
day-trader I need really good color & resolution for my trading charts
but things like a high frame rate for gaming are not necessary. I have
no amd / intel cpu preference - just 8 cores preferably and probably 4
ram slots on a mb since I don't want less than 32gb ram. Recently I
saw someone indicate nvidia graphics are not linux friendly and since
that's what I've always used on my builds an alternative is needed.
I've had really good results with Gigabyte mb's but am willing to try
another brand. I'd also like to use an ssd hdd so does Fedora support
sata3 or even sata 3.2 well? Am I correct in thinking ddr3 or ddr4 or
ram specs of any kind (latency) are pretty much irrelevant and Fedora
would support all such hardware? Does Fedora have issues with hardware
raid which I usually use? Does Fedora care about 3 or 4 channel ram
configuration? Not being a gamer I don't use SLI but since we're on
the subject about compatible hw...does Fedora / linux / open-source
have any capable sli graphics cards which work well and easily?
If someone has built an entire system like this recently would you be
willing to share your component build list? Or if you have a graphics
card which installed easily and would support my resolutions would you
mind sharing it? If someone was frustrated with a particular component
would you mind sharing what to steer clear of?
I would prefer to avoid the click & pray approach to component
selection so I'm asking what has worked well for others...or what was
problematic.
Thanks for any advice & feedback.
Drew
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