Prasoon, I am not using Windows 7, however I use Virtual Box all the time - and I believe the question you are asking is NOT windows version specific ; That said:
When creating a new virtual machine in VirtualBox - the "create new machine wizard" asks some generic questions like "System Type / Distro" in order to better guess at the base-level requirements for the virtual machine (like memory, disk space) , AND it also controls what icon the virtual machine will have. You can override many of these presets via the Settings control once you've created the initial virtual machine. The help file says, "Depending on your [OS/VERSION] selection, VirtualBox will enable or disable certain VM settings that your guest operating system may require. This is particularly important for 64-bit guestS." So, for example, if I select as MS Windows, Windows XP - the next pane shows a base-memory requirement of 192MB . If instead, I selected Linux, Linux 2.2 , the next pane recommends a memory of 64MB . So , What is suitable for LFS in VirtualBox? I'd suggest choosing the OS of Linux, with the Version of 'Linux 2.6' (or 2.6 64bit if appropriate) . On the next pane, it will recommend 256MB of memory - which if you can afford to increase, I suggest you do. I'd also suggest that you create in the Virtual Media Manager a "Fixed Size Storage" drive of 512MB and use it as your swap partition. I recall running into trouble using the 'dynamic' style drive for my swap space.... If you run into trouble, feel free to email me (directly or via the list). I use VirtualBox a lot, and have run LFS via it before. Then again, I am only a hobbyist - so if anyone else can amplify or correct this information, please do! Alexander H. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Prasoon Maheshwari <maheshwaripras...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > I am trying to install lfs via virtual-box on window-7. > There i need to give the type of operating system+its distribution. > please tell me which operating system and distribution should i select. > help me out to install it in a specific way. > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
