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Oct 23, 2014
12:54:34pm

mudpupper

8 is good for one virtual machine.

But you'll most likely be maxing things out at that point.

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mudpupper

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How much and what type of RAM should I get so I can run virtual machines?

hessrp

10/23/14 12:46pm

8 should be plenty. But then again I'm old, in my day we had choices: DOS or

OldCosmo

10/23/14 12:49pm

RE: How much and what type of RAM should I get so I can run virtual machines?

Bullrider

10/23/14 12:49pm

Programmer? No wonder TNT finds your Jazz views appalling

TNT

10/23/14 12:51pm

What do you have against programmers?

hessrp

10/23/14 12:53pm

Jefe forces TNT to think in abnormal ways

TNT

10/23/14 12:57pm

8 is good for one virtual machine.

mudpupper

10/23/14 12:54pm

The amount needed is directly related to the number and size of the VMs you will

YipiKiYa

10/23/14 1:06pm

Here's another option, get a cheap desktop with 16GB RAM and run VMWare ESXI

10/23/14 2:43pm

That is a really good idea. The only downside is I wouldn't be able to access

hessrp

10/23/14 3:04pm

There are lots of relatively cheap and easy ways of remoting to machines @ home

10/23/14 3:27pm

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