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🖥️ Win & DOS VMs


Windows Activation in VM

Extract Windows 10 RTM OEM serial number (Ubuntu + flavors)

Windows 10 RTM OEM | Verified via: Thinkpad X270, Lenovo M73, and Thinkpad X1 Extreme G2

Thinkpad X270 users: BIOS 1.50 is 🔗not compatible (drain but no charge) with aftermarket batteries (🔗1.47 is fine)

When asked for activation key: use it, and Windows installer will automatically choose the correct installation edition.

Windows & DOS VM requirements

Includes minimum and maxmimum specifications. K = Kilobyte, G = Gigabyte, M = Megabyte, T = Terabyte

See 🔗Virtualbox, 🔗Virtual Machine Manager or 🔗KVM for more information on virtual machines

Windows 7

  • RAM: 1G to 4G

  • VRAM: 32M to 1G

  • Storage: 64G to 2T

Windows XP

  • RAM: 512M to 2048M

  • VRAM: 32M to 128M

  • Storage: 20G to 100G

Windows 98

  • RAM: 16M to 512M

    Or 480M

  • VRAM: 8M to 32M

  • Storage: 200M to 4G

Windows 95

  • RAM: 4M to 512M

    Or 480M

  • VRAM: 8M to 16M

  • Storage: 100M to 2G

Windows 3.1x

  • RAM: 4M to 32M

  • VRAM: 512K to 8M

  • Storage 40M to 200M

DOS 6.22

  • RAM: 4M to 32M

  • VRAM: 512K to 2M

  • Storage: 10M to 200M

DOS 3.0 - 5.0

  • RAM: 256K to 16M

  • VRAM: 16K to 256K

  • Storage: 2M to 20M