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DDR4 memory is the latest and greatest in RAM technology, until 2020, when DDR5 is expected.
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They offer a significant increase in throughput and speed for data storage. NVMe, and M.2 SSDs are slowly replacing SATA-based SSDs and spinning HDDs in consumer and business PCs. You could have the fastest CPU with many cores, a ton of RAM, working off a sweet 2TB SSD, but if the bus that connects all of these devices together is small, all you are creating is a digital traffic jam. Another thing to also consider, that is sometimes overlooked, is bus speed. I wouldn’t bother with anything under a quad-core i7. If you can get a CPU with more cores, 6, 8, great! Xeon CPUs are really nice. You could use a dual-core CPU, but recall the part from above about under powered PCs and virtualization.
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#Windows virtualbox image Pc
Quad-core CPUs should be a pre-requisite for a host PC that will do virtualization. Intel CPUs have extensions specifically for virtualization.
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Modern CPUs are plenty powerful for many tasks, virtualization too. 32GB, 64GB of RAM is not unreasonable for this type of work. RAM is also very important because, when using VMs, RAM is being used by both the host and guest operating systems, at the same time. A combination of something like a 256GB SSD for the host operating system and applications with a 4TB spinning HDD for storage would work well. SSDs are king, but still not equal to spinning disks in price per gigabyte. It’ll work on something smaller, but in that case, you are limiting the whole process. I would not bother using a drive smaller than 1TB. Creating images, multiple images with snapshots, and testing uses up a great deal of space on the disk drive(s). Not all of us have Dell Precision workstations, or even access to a server with Hyper-V or vSphere installed, but using an under powered PC will make building images, and just using virtualization a slow and miserable experience. Given that, you’re going to want to do this work on a moderately beefy PC.
#Windows virtualbox image windows
I’m sure everything would be fine if Windows was not the host operating system. I think it is best to just stick with that for the whole process. I am aware that there are virtualization products for macOS, and Linux, but we’re working with Windows. Oracle VirtualBox – Free, and available for Windows, macOS, and Linux as both the host OS and the client OS.Despite all of the “server” nomenclature, client operating systems will work just fine.
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#Windows virtualbox image for windows 10
Largely, the process of making an image for Windows 10 is the same that is was for Windows 7 with a few twists. This summer, Windows 10 is upon us, and we have already begun slowly transitioning some areas to Microsoft’s ultimate operating system. On that note as well, the folks over at Deployment Research have a great post on creating an updated Windows 7 master image with MDT, very helpful. This post is a follow-up or compliment to creating an image of Windows for mass-distribution (Windows 7).