[dundee] virtual win in a copy2ram?

[Andrew Clayton]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:23:03 +0000, gordon dunlop wrote:

> A case scenario, I have got a 64-bit cpu running a 64-bit Linux
> system. My motherboard , ASUS NVidia Nforce4 (socket939) can only
> support a maximum of 4GB of RAM, due to the limitations of the
> chipset it will equate to approx. 3.7 or 3.8 GB of RAM. A windows XP
> VM with basic applications & anti-spyware etc is around 6GB (as a
> rule of thumb), a large footprint. In order to run that VM in RAM you
> need to have a 64-bit cpu with a motherboard that has at least 8GB of
> RAM in conjunction with a Linux 64-bit operating system prior to
> trying see if it works. I will tell you that Linux is far superior in
> running 64-bit systems, windoze is asleep here.

Yeah, well Linux has been doing 64bit since around '94 (DEC's Alpha,
which Windows NT did run on at one point). Windows only just seems to be
getting a handle on x86_64. Does Windows run on the Itanium?