Installation of Solaris 10 on VMware and on external HDD

Greetings,
I am having laptop , having 512 MB RAM, AMD Turion 64 processor.
I purchased a new external HDD, I want to install VMWARE and then I want to install solaris 10 in VMWARE on my external HDD.
I want your suggestion that whether I can install solaris 10 on this configuration and if I can configure can I configure Oracle 11g software???
As of I am new to this one, your suggetions will be so helpful for me.
Thanks & Regards
Kaushal.

user8856758 wrote:
Greetings,
I am having laptop , having 512 MB RAM, AMD Turion 64 processor.
I purchased a new external HDD, I want to install VMWARE and then I want to install solaris 10 in VMWARE on my external HDD.
I want your suggestion that whether I can install solaris 10 on this configuration and if I can configure can I configure Oracle 11g software???
As of I am new to this one, your suggetions will be so helpful for me.
Thanks & Regards
Kaushal.(1) To be blunt you dont have enough RAM for starters. You might get aware with 2GB, you probably really need 3GB or perhaps 2.5GB might just do.
(2) VMware is a company who produce several products, i assume you are talking about VMware server ... but I may be wrong.
(3) I assume you are retaining a windows OS on your laptop., but again i could be wrong.
Its not really in my nature to have Oracle Databases on external USB drives, but this stack will probably just work. (Simply because VMmare server will use a simply file for its virtual disk(s) on the USB)
I would also not be surprised if you has issues with the Solaris graphics.
In general I suspect your auggested setup may be at the least troublesome.
What I have said above are opinions, it is not fully researched and I accept corrections.

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