HOLY CRAP IT WORKED. - teleken

I should not have access to this kind of power. :P - teleken

It would be interesting to know just how much of the raw CPU power is left for the Ubuntu applications, given two levels of virtuality (both fairly hefty OSes at that)--but hey, with today's CPUs, it probably doesn't matter. - walt crawford

The host is a quad core i7 with 16GB RAM. Windows 7 was the resource pig I expected it to be, but the Ubuntu VM was happy. The purpose of this experiment was to see if I could bring the Ubuntu VM to work with me on a thumb drive and sandbox some of the work I do. it also means I have a ready built system when I need to work from home without needing to back out of what I'm doing on the Mac. - teleken

Teleken: I'd bet that OSX isn't exactly trivial in its use of resources either, but those are probably well-hidden from your view. In any case, since an i7 is a supercomputer by the standards of 15 years ago (and maybe 10 years ago), I'm not surprised you had plenty of power. [I run a 5-year-old 1.7GHz Core 2 Duo in a notebook with 3GB RAM: I suspect I'll never come close to using its obsolescent level of power. Even with Windows 7's resource demands.] - walt crawford

As OS X is more or less the Mach kernel with BSD utilities bolted on, I can pop open a terminal and run the standard top, free, df and du commands like any other sysadmin if I'm curious. Those things aren't THAT well hidden if you've been driving *nix consoles for 20 years. :) - teleken

Fusion rocks. I got a sweet deal as a former Parallels user/victim. - teleken

Fusion can run OSX inside OSX now. I got bored and tried it last night. :) - teleken