Hardware analysis for Building RAC on VM

Can i install this 64bit RAC on vm on my dell vostro 1500 labtop , its 1.79 GHz with 2GB RAM & external hard drive 500GB
I ordered kit includes Oracle VM 2.1.2 and Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.2 (x86_64-bit).
That what i am trying to build
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/wartak-rac-vm.html#1

You have the disk space, but not the memory, even discounting the memory for the Oracle VM hypervisor, OEL/RH5 is going to take at least 1G to run. So, with your base OS, hypervisor, Linux and Oracle (clusterware and DB), it may be possible, but I believe you would be swapping so much you would have terrible performance. I would look at a MINIMUM of 3GB if not 4GB RAM to try this configuration.
Cheers
Jay
http://www.grumpy-dba.com

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