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[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

i see a ram upgrade in your future. 4gb is barely enough for win10 to boot and run a browser or something. will need more on top of that for what you're gonna be running with qemu. other than that, as long as you have virtualization enabled, the rest is 'good enough'

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 5 points 1 week ago

The CPU is good

The GPU is terrible

It has 4GB of RAM which is about as low as a modern system can go, speed of ram is unknown

It's got a half Tera of SSD which is cool and a full Tera of HDD which is good for storage which doesn't need to be accessed very quickly

I say maybe? QEMU should be able to run on just about anything that supports virtualization in the motherboard's BIOS settings.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Back in the early 2000s I acquired a copy of VMWare Workstation 5, I ran VMs on an HP dv6000 with a Turion CPU and a gig of RAM.

With XP it was fine, I even ran a Windows 2003 server VM with a domain controller on it.

Those days are two decades gone, you will need a minimum of 16GB on a normal computer, and I'd recommend 32GB to give yourself headroom for VMs these days.

It sucks, absolutely, but it is the current reality.

What do you want to do with the VM?

[-] Toes@ani.social 2 points 1 week ago

What are you planning to do with the vm?

If your intention is to run anything significant like multiple instances of windows or Linux then the answer is no. Ideally you'd have at least 8GB of ram if you just want one VM.

You'll need to confirm if virtualization is enabled in the bios.

I would suggest replacing the os with something lighter like xubuntu. http://xubuntu.org/

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Waste of SSD use imho

[-] Thorry@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

It's a really old cpu that was pretty slow to begin with. But it does have the required bits for virtualization, so it should work just fine.

It would be terribly slow tho, slower still than the system already is. And with only 4GB of memory I'm amazed it even runs Windows 10. It would run out of memory as soon as you do just about anything. If you can get some more memory into the thing, it would work better.

The info says desktop? But that's a low end mobile cpu in there, 15W TDP, optimized to be cheap and have a good battery life. The downside is the performance sucks.

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