Running SBS2011 in Virtualbox on Host with 8GB RAM? 1

[kurio71]

We're upgrading to SBS 2011. Has anyone run this OS in a VM on a host with 8GB of memory?

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[ShackDaddy]

You want the guest VM to have a minimum of 8gb, so if the host has 8gb, you could probably only give 6gb to the SBS vm. If this is a test environment or for two users, you could get by, but performance is still going to be so-so. If you have more users, mobile phones, anti-virus, etc, you are going to want to have something like 12gb in the guest VM and probably 16gb installed on the host server.

Dave Shackelford
ThirdTier.net
TrainSignal.com

 

[kurio71]

Thanks ShackDaddy, it's just for me to tinker me. I bought a new laptop with 8Gb of RAM and found out SBS 2011 uses 8Gb minimum. The new box will have 32Gb.

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