adrianp918 Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Is this even possible I have a beast of a laptop that's sitting around and it has 32 the ram and 2 the hard drive Would think I could use it for a vmserver What are my chances Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoondoggy Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Possibly, you could also try Hyper-V or Proxmox, but it will be limited by the lack of resources available. What model us the laptop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrianp918 Posted April 18, 2018 Author Share Posted April 18, 2018 MSI stealthgs73 VR 32 gb ram1 TB he I7 proc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattb75 Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Best way to check would be to install ESXi onto a USB drive, plug it in and see. Remember to enable VTx / VTd in the bios.I suspect it won’t find the wireless card but may still install if it supports the (unplugged) Ethernet you could perhaps use a wireless bridge to make a wired connection if you don’t have a wired link available.That said though, even if it does work, I’d be tempted to try and sell it and use the proceeds to get a proper server to run your VM’s on - you should be able to get a pretty high spec Xeon processor tower and still have change for some memory and drives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenlip007 Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Running my Virtual Center (6.7) through a Dell E6530 with 16Gb RAM and an SSD as a replacement for the HDD, ESXI is installed as the Host platform running from a Flash drive in the USB port, never given me issues - unfortunately ESXI does not support the built in Wifi, if i could get that a second connection I would be happy as a pig in sh!t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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