Ok I have an ISY 994, that is just having issues. So in the garage I found an old ITX PC. Specs are 16GB RAM, I5-4570, Micron M500 SSD 240GB.
Which is the best OS to run on an X86_64 platform. I assume some type of Linux?
Has any extracted the image from the virtual hard disk images, and try to run native?
My computer about same age, i running cctv + ha + backup software off it.
I had i5 cpu originally in it but it running at 100% alot of the time I sold it on ebay and bought an i7 cost me $40AUD the i7 cpu happily keeping up.
I run HA in Virtualbox VM on Windows 10 x64
Linux probably has lower resource overheads, but I prefer using windows 10 coz thats what i use everywhere else and i like to keep things simple for me.
If you want to run using a VM, use Proxmox, if not, do as Nick suggested and run Debian 10 + Supervised install. Installation guides for both in the community guides section.
I have run the Supervised version, and currently run Proxmox with 3 VMs on an old Dell Optiplex with an i5 2400 with HA, Shinobi, Plex, etc, so can vouch for the system you have being more than capable.