[SOLVED] VM recommendation [Solved]

[michaelbr]

The amount of resources consumed by VirtualBox depends on how much RAM, virtual disk space and how many processor cores you alloce to each virtual machine (VM) in their settings as well as how many of them that you run at the same time. I was able to run VB with a MX Linux VM on a laptop with a 1st generation Core i5 CPU and 4GB of RAM with no problems, as long as the host machine (the physical laptop) wasn't also running several resource-hungry apps at the same time as VB.

It's good to know, since I have only 6GB of RAM in my machine (it's a laptop with i3), so I guess I'll be OK, I think I'll give it a try and see how it goes. Thanks for this tip.

[JayM]

Just don't give your VM more than 2GB of RAM and don't have tons of browser tabs open on the host machine while the guest machine's running (two or three tabs should be OK) and it should work just fine. Of course it depends on how resource-hungry the guest OS is, I suppose. A Linux distro for example should be fine.

[AVLinux]

The amount of resources consumed by VirtualBox depends on how much RAM, virtual disk space and how many processor cores you alloce to each virtual machine (VM) in their settings as well as how many of them that you run at the same time. I was able to run VB with a MX Linux VM on a laptop with a 1st generation Core i5 CPU and 4GB of RAM with no problems, as long as the host machine (the physical laptop) wasn't also running several resource-hungry apps at the same time as VB.

Be aware that (AFAICT) VMware is commercial software and as such isn't supported here.

VMWare Player is as 'free' as Virtualbox for non-commercial use, it's big sibling is payware but I'm happily running 3 VM's in the free version.

[JayM]

It's still proprietary closed-source software though (AFAIK.) Don't they have their own support community-forum for their free version? That would be the place to get VMware support, not here, was my point.

[Pierre]

it would seem to I've settled on using:
- 3500Mb for win-10 /32bit
- 5500Mb for win-10 /64bit
and that does seem to work, fairly well.
plus the default virtual drive size, is set to Double that, which the wizard would suggest.

[michaelbr]

Just don't give your VM more than 2GB of RAM and don't have tons of browser tabs open on the host machine while the guest machine's running (two or three tabs should be OK) and it should work just fine. Of course it depends on how resource-hungry the guest OS is, I suppose. A Linux distro for example should be fine.

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

[figueroa]

It's all up to you. It's up to the user to manage their Windows 10 virtual machine.

[radonrose]

I've been working on AQEMU to try distros, work on university projects that require setting up a Linux/BSD machine, stuff like that. For Windows, I would also consider Gnome Boxes. It seems simpler with a first look. I probably won't be using Windows on a VM, because my two main jobs there are Digital Systems Test-Benching, and Audio Engineering, so I must dual boot and use all the resources available to me. But lately (ie. since my last Windows unexpected re-install three days ago), I've been thinking of dual-booting some lightweight linux distribution only to run a VM. I will get used to having some resources used by the host, but the input lag when recording might prove too much. If you have the disk space but lack CPU power like me, consider this dual boot trick as well.

[agnivo007]

For your case, I recommend a Win10 2019 LTSC ISO image (no bloat, only basics for business use, search around for the real msdn iso, not the trial from windows site) and 3GB allotted with 256MB vram and 3D acceleration enabled. Assign atleast a real core if you have dual core cpu (If you have 2 core + 2 HT, then 2 in total). Follow other advice like no unneeded app installs, privacy settings. LTSC also doesn't pull many updates, only business-stable ones.

[michaelbr]

For your case, I recommend a Win10 2019 LTSC ISO image (no bloat, only basics for business use, search around for the real msdn iso, not the trial from windows site) and 3GB allotted with 256MB vram and 3D acceleration enabled. Assign atleast a real core if you have dual core cpu (If you have 2 core + 2 HT, then 2 in total). Follow other advice like no unneeded app installs, privacy settings. LTSC also doesn't pull many updates, only business-stable ones.

Interesting, I'll try to find one and give it a try. Thanks.