I think it is in an early stage. My test inside a VirtualBox was not really satisfying. Slow and not really smooth. maybe on dedicated hardware it might run better.
Sounds like the lifebook might work though.
I installed this image about a month ago on a VMware virtual machine. Not sure if I did something wrong, but didn't really get far and after a couple of tries to install it, eventually I gave up and figured to spent my time on something else.