Can a 5600H laptop with 8 GB ram run VMware?

[BaidDSB]

I want to use Linux Mint MATE on my VMware workstation and its kinda the most important thing i need to do on my new laptop.

 

So im looking around,

[jaslion]

Yes but ram is kinda low 16gb is really recommended even for everyday use

[BaidDSB]

27 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Yes but ram is kinda low 16gb is really recommended even for everyday use

what about a 5500U with 16GB ram?

[jaslion]

1 minute ago, BaidDSB said:

what about a 5500U with 16GB ram?

20-40% performance difference but for just running a vm doing not much and general tasks indistinguishable

 

The ram already makes this flat out better option

 

What laptop is it in?

[BaidDSB]

8 minutes ago, jaslion said:

20-40% performance difference but for just running a vm doing not much and general tasks indistinguishable

 

The ram already makes this flat out better option

 

What laptop is it in?

this. https://www.amazon.in/HP-15-6-inches-Micro-Edge-Anti-Glare-15s-eq2182AU/dp/B0B4N77Y34/ref=sr_1_5?crid=360SQV5E62M7A&keywords=16+gb+ram+laptop&qid=1684074722&sprefix=%2Caps%2C817&sr=8-5
 

other option is getting a 5600h laptop  and upgrading the ram. but i  dont know if those are upgradable or not https://www.amazon.in/HP-Graphics-Response-Backlit-15-fb0777AX/dp/B0BSG1S3GN/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=5600h%2Blaptop&qid=1684074806&sprefix=56%2Caps%2C226&sr=8-4&th=1

[jaslion]

2 minutes ago, BaidDSB said:

this. https://www.amazon.in/HP-15-6-inches-Micro-Edge-Anti-Glare-15s-eq2182AU/dp/B0B4N77Y34/ref=sr_1_5?crid=360SQV5E62M7A&keywords=16+gb+ram+laptop&qid=1684074722&sprefix=%2Caps%2C817&sr=8-5
 

other option is getting a 5600h laptop  and upgrading the ram. but i  dont know if those are upgradable or not https://www.amazon.in/HP-Graphics-Response-Backlit-15-fb0777AX/dp/B0BSG1S3GN/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=5600h%2Blaptop&qid=1684074806&sprefix=56%2Caps%2C226&sr=8-4&th=1

Are you gaming or anything?

 

What are you actually doing?

 

Because these laptops are meant for ENTIRELY DIFFERENT usecases

[BaidDSB]

16 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Are you gaming or anything?

 

What are you actually doing?

 

Because these laptops are meant for ENTIRELY DIFFERENT usecases

no i want to run VMWare on it to run linux mint for a job i do. i might game, but only on trips when im away from my PC.

[Darkseth]

What needs to run inside the VM?

You don't really need alot of CPU Performance for basic things, on my 4-core Desktop PC i sometimes have like 3-4 Linux VMs running at the same time, but not doing anything besides basics. Updating, Comparing both Distros, etc. I allow every VM to use 4 Cores, no issues with Performance. They just use the CPU Performance they actually need. So even if i allocate 4 Cores (with a 4-Core CPU) on 4 VMs each, and they all only use 5% CPU, only 20% CPU usage is gone for all 4 VMs. They take, what they need.

 

Ram is different. If i allocate 4gb Ram for a VM, it "takes up" 4gb Ram. 

 

 

Let me tell you, doing basic Office-Work with a 8gb Ram Windows Machine, the Ram is constantly full and already micromanaging with swapping and compressing.

Not much room left for a VM.

 

Make sure you can upgrade to 16gb Ram, or buy a 16gb Ram Laptop.

 

If you only do office Stuff, nothing that requires heavy Load of Performance (Rendering, 3D Work, Gaming, etc), a Ryzen 5 5500u is absolutely fine.

[BaidDSB]

2 minutes ago, Darkseth said:

What needs to run inside the VM?

You don't really need alot of CPU Performance for basic things, on my 4-core Desktop PC i sometimes have like 3-4 Linux VMs running at the same time, but not doing anything besides basics. Updating, Comparing both Distros, etc. I allow every VM to use 4 Cores, no issues with Performance. They just use the CPU Performance they actually need. So even if i allocate 4 Cores (with a 4-Core CPU) on 4 VMs each, and they all only use 5% CPU, only 20% CPU usage is gone for all 4 VMs. They take, what they need.

 

Ram is different. If i allocate 4gb Ram for a VM, it "takes up" 4gb Ram. 

 

 

Let me tell you, doing basic Office-Work with a 8gb Ram Windows Machine, the Ram is constantly full and already micromanaging with swapping and compressing.

Not much room left for a VM.

 

Make sure you can upgrade to 16gb Ram, or buy a 16gb Ram Laptop.

 

If you only do office Stuff, nothing that requires heavy Load of Performance (Rendering, 3D Work, Gaming, etc), a Ryzen 5 5500u is absolutely fine.

mostly browsing and banking stuff.

[Darkseth]

11 minutes ago, BaidDSB said:

mostly browsing and banking stuff.

Then 2-3 Cores for Mint would be plenty, and probably only 2gb Ram (or 3). I can see this working on a 8gb machine, but it will be full Ram and the Machine will be swapping.
On Windows, i would check how big the Pagefile is, and maybe set it manually to 16gb (the System might probably set it to like only 3gb, it won't be able to swap more than 3gb then).

 

But depending on Model and price, 16gb is much much better.

[E-waste]

I run virtualbox with Linux Mint cinnamon and can almost use it with 864MB memory in live-cd mode, which uses a lot more memory than installed mode.  1GB would work fine.

 

I run debian without a desktop (it boots to command line instead) and it uses 130MB of memory that way, but xfce loads with 256mb memory, and doesn't boot at all with much less for some reason so that is basically the minimum to boot Linux.  Firefox with xfce needs about 640mb to work well, and a swap partition inside the VM will allow the system to not completely freeze if there isn't enough.