Just thought I would ask im thinking of moving over to Ubuntu (Many reasons) but I want to continue to use ableton. Now I know ableton wont be making a linux version anytime soon so I thought I would ask if it would be safe to run ableton in a virtual windows xp environment with 2GB RAM and 60GB HDD which is just for ableton. Not for any other use but production.
What are your thoughts?
I use linux all the time for work. In theory this should work fine…
You might have some issues with USB/device drivers. Linux is not as plug & play friendly as windows…
Most importantly, you need more memory IMO. 2Gigs isnt gunna cut it. Atleast put 4GB in there.
Also 60 gigs is nothing. Ableton is like 9 gigs. Some synths like Omnisphere are 60 gigs.
You need to buck up and buy a 1 TB drive for whatever machine your producing on.
Buck up… Great expression 
[quote]UnitedVision (02/05/2011)[hr]I use linux all the time for work. In theory this should work fine…
You might have some issues with USB/device drivers. Linux is not as plug & play friendly as windows…
Most importantly, you need more memory IMO. 2Gigs isnt gunna cut it. Atleast put 4GB in there.
Also 60 gigs is nothing. Ableton is like 9 gigs. Some synths like Omnisphere are 60 gigs.
You need to buck up and buy a 1 TB drive for whatever machine your producing on.[/quote]
My system has 4GB RAM so the max I can put on the virtual system 3GB, Would this be ok?
this sounds like a bad idea to me.
Put it this way, I’m running windows 7 (64bit) with 8 gig of DDR3 ram and a 4 core CPU at 3.8ghz (AMD Phenom II X4 955) and I’m waiting for the new 8 core processor from AMD coming out in june as my CPU get munched with everything I have going on.
I also have 2 TB of storage and only 178 GB left, so I’ll be putting a new 1TB HD in there this week.
Your system will do ok at first but if you will find that over a short space of time it just will not cut it at all.
[quote]Liam1895 (02/05/2011)[hr]Just thought I would ask im thinking of moving over to Ubuntu (Many reasons)…[/quote]
So I’m curious what some of these reason are…
Looks like some have gotten it working natively using wine. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13656