Virtual machine question

A few questions regarding virtual machines as ive said before the old laptop I was working off of pretty much died on me and am in the process of saving up money for a new laptop and am building my own desktop right now im working off of my parents desktop but on it I feel constrained… really constrained so Ive decided to set up a virtual machine that I can work off of with Windows XP now my question is how much RAM and disk space should I dedicate to it? this desktop of my parents (sadly) only comes with 448 mb of Ram and the C: drive has 65gb free space and the D: 7gb of free space

thanks

Justin

I would give it at least 200-256Mb of RAM and 10-15Gb on drive C.

thanks Tech

You’re welcome… anyway, the guesses were based in my old Virtual Machines work. Indeed, you should have at least 1Gb of RAM to run XP virtually + normal usage at the same time. The virtual machine will run very very slow and the main machine (host) either…

ouch I guess not then, I just wanted to create one cause me I like to tweak things to work how I like and experiment as well with Avast! and such but for some odd reason I cant convince my dad to switch for Norton no matter how many times I tell him its bad, but I cant do any of that on this PC because well its not mine

Definitively you won’t be able (comfortable) to run Virtual Machine + Norton + virtual avast…
Too few RAM.

Yeah I agree, Its sad though because my old 2002 laptop had 512mb of ram so every time I look at this desktop I cant help but just ask the question “what were they thinking?”