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Introduction to Desktop Virtualization
A.2
Appendix A System Requirements
A Little Bit of History
It’s easy to forget how quickly information technology has evolved and having
thoughts like ‘No, is that really true? Can I really run Windows XP on 64 MiB of
memory…?’
As a brief reminder, Table 5 shows minimum requirements for all OSs from Apple
and Microsoft, plus a few releases of Ubuntu – one of the current more popular
Linux distributions.
Table 5: Requirements Operating Systems 2001-2011
Released
OS
RAM
Disk
Comments
2001 Mar
2001 Aug
2001 Sep
2002 May
2003 Oct
2004 Oct
OS X 10.0
Windows XP
OS X 10.1
OS X 10.2
OS X 10.3
Ubuntu 4.10
128 MiB
64 MiB
128 MiB
128 MiB
128 MiB
64 MiB
1.5 GiB
1.5 GiB
1.5 GiB
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1.5 GiB
1 GiB
800 MiB for minimal install
3.2 GiB for SP2, 4.1 GiB for SP3
2005 Apr
2006 Jun
2006 Nov
OS X 10.4
OS X 10.5
Vista
256 MiB
512 MiB
512 MiB
3 GiB
9 GiB
20 GiB
2008 Apr
2009 Jul
2009 Aug
2011 Jul
2011 Oct
Ubuntu 8.04
Windows 7
OS X 10.6
OS X 10.7
Ubuntu 11.10
64 MiB
1 GiB
1 GiB
2 GiB
384 MiB
5 GiB
16 GiB
5 GiB
7 GiB
5 GB
No disk space req. in [W] article
‘With Desktop’ version. Yes – 4.10
was the first release of Ubuntu
For Vista Capable; 1 GiB / 40 GiB
for Vista Premium Ready.
Min; 512 MiB rec. (With Desktop)
32-bit; 64-bit: 2 GiB / 20 GiB
[W]
[W]
(Desktop; Server: 128 MiB / 1 GiB)
Color-coded origin:
Apple – bluish
Microsoft – pinkish
Linux – greenish
Sources:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X and wikipedia’s Mac_OS_X_v10.[x] for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_xp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7
Ubuntu 4.10: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/warty/main/installeri386/20040801ubuntu20/doc/manual/en/ch03s04.html
Ubuntu 8.04: https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/installation-guide/i386/minimumhardware-reqts.html
Ubuntu 11.10 (current):
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements
Johan Sarkinen
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