diff --git a/src/libcalamares/utils/CalamaresUtilsSystem.cpp b/src/libcalamares/utils/CalamaresUtilsSystem.cpp
index 745472203..f358e46a5 100644
--- a/src/libcalamares/utils/CalamaresUtilsSystem.cpp
+++ b/src/libcalamares/utils/CalamaresUtilsSystem.cpp
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 
 #include <QDir>
 #include <QProcess>
+#include <QRegularExpression>
 
 namespace CalamaresUtils
 {
@@ -178,4 +179,51 @@ chrootOutput( const QString& command,
 }
 
 
+qint64
+getPhysicalMemoryB()
+{
+        QProcess p;
+        p.start( "dmidecode", { "-t", "17" } );
+        p.waitForFinished();
+        QStringList lines = QString::fromLocal8Bit( p.readAllStandardOutput() ).split( '\n' );
+        lines = lines.filter( QRegularExpression( "^\\W*Size:\\W\\d*\\WMB" ) );
+        if ( !lines.isEmpty() )
+            return 0;
+
+        qint64 availableRamMb = 0;
+        foreach( const QString& line, lines )
+        {
+            bool ok = false;
+            availableRamMb += line.simplified()
+                                  .split( ' ' )
+                                  .value( 1 )
+                                  .toInt( &ok );
+            if ( !ok )
+                return 0;
+        }
+        qint64 availableRam = availableRamMb * 1024 * 1024;
+        return availableRam;
+}
+
+
+qint64
+getTotalMemoryB()
+{
+    // A line in meminfo looks like this, with {print $2} we grab the second column.
+    // MemTotal:        8133432 kB
+
+    QProcess p;
+    p.start( "awk", { "/MemTotal/ {print $2}", "/proc/meminfo" } );
+    p.waitForFinished();
+    QString memoryLine = p.readAllStandardOutput().simplified();
+
+    bool ok = false;
+    qint64 availableRam = memoryLine.toLongLong( &ok ) * 1024;
+    if ( !ok )
+        return 0;
+
+    return availableRam;
+}
+
+
 }
diff --git a/src/libcalamares/utils/CalamaresUtilsSystem.h b/src/libcalamares/utils/CalamaresUtilsSystem.h
index 1d3884541..b6ea452d7 100644
--- a/src/libcalamares/utils/CalamaresUtilsSystem.h
+++ b/src/libcalamares/utils/CalamaresUtilsSystem.h
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ DLLEXPORT int chrootOutput( const QString& command,
                             const QString& workingPath = QString(),
                             const QString& stdInput = QString(),
                             int timeoutSec = 0 );
+
+DLLEXPORT qint64 getPhysicalMemoryB();  //Better guess, doesn't work in VirualBox
+
+DLLEXPORT qint64 getTotalMemoryB();     //Always underguessed, but always works on Linux
 }
 
 #endif // CALAMARESUTILSSYSTEM_H