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Virtualbox is really cool software for virtualization and it is free. Latest version of virtualbox support running 64bit guest, even on 32bit host. See this checklist: Make sure your processor support VT-x (or AMD-v) and 64bit Enable in BIOS: Virtual Machine Technology set option in guest: PAE, IOAPIC, ACPI to enabled And most important thing: set OSType to Ubuntu_64 or Windows_64 (note the _64) Install your guest OS (i prefer using headless and rdp)

I've tried compcache but dont get good result: http://superbiji.blogspot.com/2010/12/enable-compcache-in-ubuntu.html But zram seem working fine. Compcache will be included in 2.6.37 kernel, named: zram. But if you want to try it follow this step: Download and install 2.6.36 kernel from here: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.36.2-natty/ Get compcache source (not tar.gz), if you get compile error see reference below: hg clone https://compcache.googlecode.com/hg/ compcache make cp zram.ko /lib/modules/2.6.36-02063602-generic/updates/ depmod -a Add this to /etc/rc.local: # if you have 2 core modprobe zram num_devices=2 # 500mb each, usually compressed to 80% echo 524288000 > /sys/block/zram0/disksize echo 524288000 > /sys/block/zram1/disksize mkswap /dev/zram0 mkswap /dev/zram1 swapon /dev/zram0 -p 100 swapon /dev/zram1 -p 100 Next, reboot and run big apps like eclipse, 3 virtual machines Reference: http://www.vflare.org/2010/05/compresse