Virtualbox Hardware Requirements

[Wadeford]

Hey all,

 

I'm helping a friend build a new system, and he wants to run Virtualbox. I've never used it so I'm not sure what the system requirements are, so if anyone can help me out re: hardware specifications that would be awesome

 

Wadeford 

 

PS. I totally know he should dual boot, but he doesn't want to, so... yeah. 

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It depends on what you are doing.  If it just has to be usable like for Word and MSN messenger and stuff, a CPU from 10 years ago will do the job.  If you are planning to game on it, I don't think any hardware will work.  For that you'd have to do the GPU pass-through thing Linus has shown in unraid, and that precludes running a "normal" host OS like Windows and the VM side by side afaik.  Basically only the Host or the VM is going to have powerful GPU performance, and the other will not.

[another random person]

My use example is that I use it for "casual use(_hacking)" with kali Linux. I am running windows in the background and a few other apps. My PC specs are in my profile page. But it runs quite smoothly without a hitch at all. But just don't use it for gaming like Ryan mentioned earlier. But it mainly depends on your use and how much resources you dedicate to your VM. (I dedicated 4 GB of ram alongside 20 GB of storage and it's all fine.

[manikyath]

18 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

a CPU from 10 years ago will do the job.

it might actually not.

 

i suggest just building a system, and afterwards fact checking on ark.intel if it has virtualization extensions.

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4 minutes ago, manikyath said:

it might actually not.

 

i suggest just building a system, and afterwards fact checking on ark.intel if it has virtualization extensions.

I've done it   Word 2007 running on Windows XP works just fine on an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ running Ubuntu 

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I've done it   Word 2007 running on Windows XP works just fine on an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ running Ubuntu 

theres specific parts of the intel side pretty much not supporting virtualization at all.

[Wadeford]

Thanks guys, much appreciated

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10 hours ago, manikyath said:

theres specific parts of the intel side pretty much not supporting virtualization at all.

fair enough.  I'm just generally trying to show that you don't need a lot of power for something basic

[BHS4K]

You need a CPU With Virtualization which is on basically every CPU from the last few years, you'll have to enable it in BIOS if its off.