Re: [ubuntu-uk] Booting to ubuntu with VM, for now -- advice needed

2011-05-12 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On 13/05/11 07:49, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 07:31 +0100, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: Each process will be still limited to a max of 4GB therefore if your aim is to use more than that inside a process, 64 bit is the better choice. Each process is limited to a max of 2 GB, not 4 GB

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Booting to ubuntu with VM, for now -- advice needed

2011-05-12 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 07:31 +0100, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > Each process will be still limited to a max of 4GB therefore if your aim > is to use more than that inside a process, 64 bit is the better choice. Each process is limited to a max of 2 GB, not 4 GB. The maximum addressable space for a 32-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Booting to ubuntu with VM, for now -- advice needed

2011-05-12 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On 12/05/11 21:17, Avi wrote: Ubuntu ships with PAE support (as do most distros - the kernel's supported it for ever, too), so any 32bit Ubuntu install will be able to address 64GB by default. Each process will be still limited to a max of 4GB therefore if your aim is to use more than that insid

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Booting to ubuntu with VM, for now -- advice needed

2011-05-12 Thread Avi
Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: AFAIK you need to use a 64 bit OS / CPU to use more than 4Gb RAM Only with Windows, and that's a licensing rather than technical restriction. 'plain' 32bit x86 can address 4GB of memory. 32bit x86 with PAE (which is about the last ten years' worth) can address 64GB o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Booting to ubuntu with VM, for now -- advice needed

2011-05-12 Thread doug livesey
You're sort-of right -- I've got it working, now, by booting my Mac into the 64 bit Kernel. Cheers, Doug. On 12 May 2011 17:15, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: > > > On 11 May at 1:15, doug livesey wrote: > > > > > Hi -- so this is being typed from an Ubuntu VM under Mac OSX. I've > > > given up th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Booting to ubuntu with VM, for now -- advice needed

2011-05-12 Thread Paul Morgan-Roach
> On 11 May at 1:15, doug livesey wrote: > > > Hi -- so this is being typed from an Ubuntu VM under Mac OSX. I've > > given up the hope of dual-booting for now -- maybe I'll try again > > sometime later with 10.04. However, I have 8 gig RAM on my MBP, yet > > seem only to be able to assign less th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Booting to ubuntu with VM, for now -- advice needed

2011-05-11 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 11 May at 1:15, doug livesey wrote: > Hi -- so this is being typed from an Ubuntu VM under Mac OSX. I've > given up the hope of dual-booting for now -- maybe I'll try again > sometime later with 10.04. However, I have 8 gig RAM on my MBP, yet > seem only to be able to assign less than 4 gig to

[ubuntu-uk] Booting to ubuntu with VM, for now -- advice needed

2011-05-10 Thread doug livesey
Hi -- so this is being typed from an Ubuntu VM under Mac OSX. I've given up the hope of dual-booting for now -- maybe I'll try again sometime later with 10.04. However, I have 8 gig RAM on my MBP, yet seem only to be able to assign less than 4 gig to my ubuntu image in VirtualBox -- I'm guessing be