Requirements for a VM

[KGGaming]

So on my pc I want to run a vm with linux on it but the base os for my system is windows. What requirements are needed for a fully functioning pc and vm?

[manikyath]

to have it work? like a gig or so of free memory and 30 gigs of free disk space.

 

to have it work decently? at least a somewhat modern quadcore cpu, 4 gigs of free memory (so 8 GB RAM installed at the very least), and about 60GB free space on an SSD.

 

to run games in the VM: very specialized hardware and software, if you have to ask, it really is outside your scope.

[KGGaming]

2 minutes ago, manikyath said:

to have it work? like a gig or so of free memory and 30 gigs of free disk space.

 

to have it work decently? at least a somewhat modern quadcore cpu, 4 gigs of free memory (so 8 GB RAM installed at the very least), and about 60GB free space on an SSD.

 

to run games in the VM: very specialized hardware and software, if you have to ask, it really is outside your scope.

but what would be a good cpu? Would a pentium g4560 work? or is like a quad core processor the minimum?

[nox_]

3 minutes ago, KGGaming said:

but what would be a good cpu? Would a pentium g4560 work? or is like a quad core processor the minimum?

as @manikyath said, to work decently, yes, somewhat modern quad core cpu is the minimum.

[Phas3L0ck]

5 minutes ago, KGGaming said:

but what would be a good cpu? Would a pentium g4560 work? or is like a quad core processor the minimum?

GOD NO! If you want to RUN a VM of any kind, you need at least a quad-core i5 or greater.

Or any recent AMD Ryzen will do, for example.

[nox_]

2 minutes ago, Phas3L0ck said:

If you want to RUN a VM of any kind,

Well that's not exactly true, you can run it on dual core too, but the experience will be pretty horrible, unless it's extremely light flavor of linux.

[Phas3L0ck]

Just now, nox_ said:

Well that's not exactly true, you can run on it on dual core too, but the experience will be pretty horrible, unless it's extremely light flavor of linux.

Well... **it's really hard not to say DUH at this point**

DamnSmallLinux, anyone?

[KGGaming]

Just now, Phas3L0ck said:

Well... **it's really hard not to say DUH at this point**

DamnSmallLinux, anyone?

What do you mean when you say small linux i don't fully understand that

[nox_]

Just now, KGGaming said:

What do you mean when you say small linux i don't fully understand that

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

[Phas3L0ck]

Just now, nox_ said:

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

Thank you. You just saved me half a search.

[nox_]

3 minutes ago, Phas3L0ck said:

Well... **it's really hard not to say DUH at this point**

DamnSmallLinux, anyone?

Yeah, but op's questions are answered already but he does not seem to read relevant post, so I tried to make it extra clear

[manikyath]

17 minutes ago, KGGaming said:

but what would be a good cpu? Would a pentium g4560 work? or is like a quad core processor the minimum?

it'll work.. it'll be rather sluggish most likely, but it'll work.