Hi, My machine is 4GB ram, so I am surprised when you say 4GB is unheard of these days. I am running an Arch Linux distro on a 500GB hard drive, 4GB Ram and a 64-bit processor. Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Okay, so I want to give some Linux distros other than the one I'm > running a try, but I don't have a spare machine in working order to > use, don't have a spare hard drive to swap out in my main machine, and > don't want to risk my running system to try out a different distro I > might not like... The obvious solution would be to fire up a virtual > machine, but I've got a few concerns. > > 1. Most importantly, this machine is a decade old and I'm worried > it'll choke on a virtual machine even if it's Linux-on-Linux, > especially since I already run into circumstances were Firefox+Orca > slow to a crawl(usually on websites that Abuse JavaScript, HTML5, and > other rich web content). > > My Specs are: > > Vintage 2011 Intel i7. Exact model unknown, but I believe its from the > 2600 series... I understand even old i7s have aged fairly well, so > this is my least concern. > > 4 GB RAM... I understand having this little RAM is practically unheard > of these days so this is probably my biggest concern. > > All of my hard drives are platter based. I've got a swap partition of > unknown size, but since my understanding is that accessing swap and > the system partition at the same time would slow things down, I'm > guessing it would be better to store the virtual drives for my virtual > machines on one of my data drives instead of the system drive(my tower > has three harddrives, a smaller drive used for the system and two > larger drives used for data storage). > > No idea if I have integrated graphics or a proper graphics card, but > I'm assuming this is mostly a non-issue since I'm not running any 3-d > modeling software or games using polygonal graphics. > > 2. My system isn't setup to allow me to run a full desktop, and the > script I use to launch Firefox+orca in a kiosk-like fashion only works > for a few, specific applications. I've attempted to write a script to > let me launch arbitrary GUI apps with Orca to no avail... As a result, > I need a Virtual machine that can be setup and run from a tty without > X, ideally one that can run a GUI within the VM even if it can't > render the view to the host(I don't have a monitor anyways, the only > output I need from the VM is audio). > > 3. I'm running a 32-bit kernel. I know my processor is 64-bit as I've > gotten the distro I'm using to boot from Live media with a 64-bit > kernel, but haven't been able to get an installed system working with > anything other than a 32-bit Kernel... Does the Host OS being 32-bit > restrict the guest OS to 32-bit as well? > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list