Opened 13 years ago
Last modified 13 years ago
#9316 new enhancement
Hardware presets - the next killer feature?
| Reported by: | CaptSaltyJack | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | GUI | Version: | VirtualBox 4.1.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
Or maybe it's just a bad idea. :) But here goes:
Some of the less techy VBox users have no idea what PAE is/does, or the difference between the PIIX3 chipset & the ICH9 chipset, or what IO APIC is, etc. It would be really nice if there were a "hardware profile picker" list, which basically is just a list of presets, e.g. "Old Pentium 2 from 1999" or "Typical Intel Core 2 Duo" to serve as starting points that people can use to emulate a particular type of virtual machine the guest will be running on. Choosing one of these presets would auto-fill in all the details for us.
My examples above are bad, I know. But this should illustrate the concept at least.
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 13 years ago
comment:2 by , 13 years ago
If that's true, why was PAE disabled when I was installing a Linux guest on my Mac? I didn't even know what PAE was, but the Debian install complained about it, so I looked it up and it seems PAE basically lets OS's access large amounts of RAM (which Mac OS can do).
comment:3 by , 13 years ago
The only thing that's needed is tweaking and fixing the current implementation, it wouldn't be better to implement a new feature to complement the current one.
You should search for similar topics, then ask on the forums, to see if a new bug report is needed. The Create New VM wizard should create optimal settings, that's for sure.
There's no need for this. When a user creates a VM, the settings of the new VM are already optimal for the selected guest OS (chipset type, APIC type, PAE).