Which operating system uses the lowest amount of system ressources?

Question

I'm using a program that is calculating things as it receives information and I need it to be running on multiple virtual machines on my PC at the same time.

Now before I was going to set this up, I was wondering which operating system would be ideal to be running on the virtual machines to run as many of them as possible on restricted ressources? The only requirement is that my program is not able to run on Linux.

I was thinking of going back to Windows XP on each virtual machine, assuming the newer operating systems are taking too much ressources for themselves, but that's just a guess.

Hope someone has more knowledge than me about this and can help me out. Thank you!

Answer 1

如果您从不要在线使用这些虚拟机XP是更好的选择。 Windows 8.1（以及10）是最近的设计，因此专为高功率现代硬件而设计，XP很久以前就设计用于较旧的较慢硬件。在较新的硬件上运行较旧的操作系统将使其分区快速，当然比旧硬件上的新操作系统快得多。另一个问题是你将运行什么程序，如果它是旧的程序，它们将与XP兼容，如果它是新的程序，XP将无法运行它们。如果你要将这些虚拟机放在网上，那么XP是一个糟糕的主意，很棒的操作系统，因为它现在变得不安全，因为微软停止生成补丁洞的更新，并且不要忘记微软也不会支持XP了（http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-support-help），所以你应该回到绘图表并确定你的优先事项和需求，然后决定，干杯！

Answer 2

如果您无法运行* NIX / BSD系统，您可以将WFL windows xp用于传统计算机，它可以在128 MB RAM上运行