minimums for Ubuntu on VirtualBox in Windows

[Robert Citek]

The last time I ran VirtualBox in Windows was on XP with 3+ GB of RAM.
What would folks here say is the minimal requirement for running an
Ubuntu guest in VirtualBox on Windows XP, Vista, or Win7?

Unfortunately, the Vbox docs are somewhat vague:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/End-user_documentation

From Microsoft's site, the minimums seem to be 128 MB for XP, 500 MB
for Vista, 1 GB for Win 7. But is that dog-slow-minimum or it is
reasonable for a usable VBox install running Ubuntu as a guest?

FWIW, I can run an Ubuntu 9.04 guest with 500 MB virtual RAM on an
Ubuntu 8.04 host with 2 GB RAM.

Regards,
- Robert

[Mike B.]

"But is that dog-slow-minimum or it is
reasonable for a usable VBox install running Ubuntu as a guest?"

Hound Dog slow. Up the XP to 256, and double the others, too, to get a reasonable machine instance.  Or at least that's what I read recently.  

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