Well my home server had died
p4 4gb ram
it would host a Virtual Machine on it for my home server
as i like things in a Container that i can move to other places fast, no installing os's etc
the backup is a
old netbook
heres the info

Code:
debian:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 28
model name      : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270   @ 1.60GHz
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 1533.454
cache size      : 6144 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflu                                     sh mmx fxsr sse sse2 constant_tsc up pni monitor ssse3
bogomips        : 3238.55
clflush size    : 64
power management:
with 2gb ram

so my VMs are given 256mb ram
and to my surprise the intel atom does ok when Running 2 debian VMS
(there running mysql lighttpd serving a inhouse blog kinda thing)
Its quite snappy

The host os is just debian minimal with openbox
with virtualbox