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’
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.
That’s a 7th gen i3 man
It’s no Ryzen 9, but there are worse CPUs in existence, I will tell you that. Support for CPUs is a lot easier than support for GPUs.
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?
I wish to run both linux as well as android on it.
That is what you will run on it, yes, what are you looking to do with it?
I’m new to computers actually, so yet to figure out what are the things that they can do. A VM can do.
Alright, just a heads up with the specs you posted, you may be rather disappointed with the performance of the VM.
Do you have any budget for computer hardware?
I’d start my learning journey with what l have in hand.
Right now, l’ve just installed a WSL. I’ve installed fish and zsh. I would have loved to install MX Linux, but l better stick with Ubuntu for the time being. My next step would be setting up vs code, and starting off my journey with git.
I would recommend dual booting/switching to linux and running android via linux.
Memory is probably your biggest bottle neck here so setting up a bit of extra swap for Linux will be worthwhile until you can upgrade
Depending on what you want to do, yes this is fine for running VMs on. If you are just spinning up some containers or a lightweight VM to host something its fine.
Sure, if you put the Windows in the VM.
I have run qemu successfully on a mobile Kaby Lake processor. Was a 8th gen i5 with 4c/8t, though, and the system had 32 gigs of Memory.
With that setup, I ran Windows to use Lightroom, went pretty smoothly.
So, like, the architecture can do it, but with 2c/4t and almost no Memory, you probably can’t do much on the host OS while running the emulator, and whatever you emulate probably also can’t be very heavy.
Waste of SSD use imho
Does Windows run at all in that amount of memory?
My computer is working. Why do you ask ?
i’ve booted win10 under 256mb of ram in the past. it does work.
