vCore Requirements

CAUTION: Windows 'Sleep Mode' will interrupt communication between a Virtual Core and its Q-SYS Designer Software instances. When hosting a Virtual Core on a Windows PC, be sure to disable Sleep Mode in Windows Settings.

• 64-bit Processor with Second Level Address Translation (SLAT)

• CPU support for VM Monitor Mode Extension (VT-c on Intel CPU)

• Minimum 8 GB memory with 2 GB assigned to each vCore VM image

• Minimum 2 GB disk space

• Must be enabled in BIOS:

  • Virtualization Technology

    Note: May have different labelling depending on motherboard manufacturer

  • Hardware Enforced Data Execution Prevention

• Supported Windows Operating Systems

  • Windows 11 Enterprise, Pro, Education

  • Windows 10 Enterprise, Pro, Education

  • Windows Server 2022

  • Windows Server 2019

  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019

  Note: The Hyper-V role cannot be installed on Windows 10 Home.

• x86 System running recent Linux kernel with:

  • Intel Processor with VT (virtual technology) extensions

  • AMD Processor with SVM extensions (also called AMD-V)

  • More Xen supported processors available at https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/VTd_HowTo

• Balanced memory for guest and host OS (1GB minimum for host)

• See VMware Compatibility Guide - System Search for full list of supported systems

• Supported server platform

• Multi-core 64-bit x86 processors with at least 2 CPU cores

• NX/XD bit enabled for the CPU in the BIOS

• Minimum 4 GB physical memory; providing at least 8 GB to run virtual machines in typical production environments

• Support for hardware virtualization (Intel-VT-x or AMD RVI) must be enabled

• One or more Gigabit or faster Ethernet controllers

• Boot disk with minimum 32 GB persistent storage such as HDD, SSD, or NVMe

  • Use USB, SD and non-USB flash media devices only for ESXi boot bank partitions

  Note: Boot device must not be shared between ESXi hosts

• SCSI disk or local, non-network RAID LUN with unpartitioned space for virtual machines

Note: For Serial ATA (SATA), a disk connected through supported SAS controllers or supported on-board SATA controllers. SATA disks are considered remote, not local. These disks are not used as a scratch partition by default because they are seen as remote.