I run 32-bit XP in VirtualBox on my X360. It's a low-voltage, dual-core
1.2GHz chip (SU9300) with 3GB of RAM running 64-bit Ubuntu (8.10 at the
moment). It runs pretty fast for me; that is, the fan doesn't seem to go
crazy and there's no real noticeable lag in the host or the VM. To be
fair though, I haven't really used it much since I installed it, except
to look at one website in IE.
A friend of mine with the same laptop signed up for the professional
license from Sun (free for personal use,
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL) and used the virtual XP
to configure his Harmony remote via USB. I don't see why the same
solution wouldn't work for you, assuming you had a machine of comparable
power.
-Joe
Mark Phillips wrote:
> No one mentioned a VM solution - boot Linux and run Windows with some form
> of vmware for ITunes. Am I looking at yet more expense for high end hardware
> (lots of RAM and dual core)? I have tried vmware on my P4 2 GHz laptop and
> it works but a little too slow. Also, the fan sounds like a blender on max,
> so it kind of defeats the quiet aspect of a laptop.
>
> I have also had great experiences with older Dell hardware, but I have heard
> that their quality is falling.
>
> Thanks for all the input - any vmware/other vm solutions on Linux fans out
> there with recommendations for good laptop hardware?
>
> Mark
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