05-20-2016, 06:35 PM
Hi,
In terms of CPU power it should be fine.
I have VBox running on a N3050 Laptop which compared to your E7400..is nearly half of your spec. Benchmarks for E7400 vs N3050
I have only 2GB on Laptop, and alocated 892MB to a WinXP VM that runs fine.
If you look at the spec of of E7400 on Intel site the important thing is "Intel Virtualization Technology"
There is a notation "[color=rgb(83, 86, 90)]‡ This feature may not be available on all computing systems.[/color] "
Look in you BIOS to see if there is an option something like "Enable VT-x"
You have nothing to loose, just try it.
Here is VBox Running WinXP VM on the N3050 and CPU is about 20%
![[Image: KbXuDvM.png]](http://i.imgur.com/KbXuDvM.png)
Just a note,
any DOS like MSDOS6.2 or DOS based OS like 3.11/98 will max out your CPU.
You need to install something like DosIdle or CPU Rain in the Guest to tame CPU Halt Cycles.
Do some Googling
In terms of CPU power it should be fine.
I have VBox running on a N3050 Laptop which compared to your E7400..is nearly half of your spec. Benchmarks for E7400 vs N3050
I have only 2GB on Laptop, and alocated 892MB to a WinXP VM that runs fine.
If you look at the spec of of E7400 on Intel site the important thing is "Intel Virtualization Technology"
There is a notation "[color=rgb(83, 86, 90)]‡ This feature may not be available on all computing systems.[/color] "
Look in you BIOS to see if there is an option something like "Enable VT-x"
You have nothing to loose, just try it.
Here is VBox Running WinXP VM on the N3050 and CPU is about 20%
Just a note,
any DOS like MSDOS6.2 or DOS based OS like 3.11/98 will max out your CPU.
You need to install something like DosIdle or CPU Rain in the Guest to tame CPU Halt Cycles.
Do some Googling
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Linux Lite 3.0 Humming on a ASRock N3070 Mobo ~ btrfs RAID 10 Install on 4 Disks
Computers Early days:
ZX Spectrum(1982) , HP-150 MS-DOS(1983) , Amstrad CPC464(1984) , BBC Micro B+64(1985) , My First PC HP-Vectra(1987)