Guidelines for allocating system resources for VMs?

From	Albin Otterhäll <gmane@otterhall.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Guidelines for allocating system resources for VMs?
Date	2016-05-14 11:10 +0200
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I want to use virtual machines for my everyday work on my laptop (with a
Intel Core i5-3320M @ 2.60 GHz * 4 and 16GB RAM), using KVM on Debian as
my hypervisor.

But I can't find any general guidelines for how much system resources to
"give" to a VM. How many logical cores? How much RAM? Note that the
primary OS only should act as a hypervisor.

I will primarily use a Debian VM (i.e. Debian VM on Debian), but I also
want to be able to run a Windows 10 VM (Windows VM on Debian). It's not
necessary for both VMs to run simultaneously.
-- 
Regards,
Albin

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Guidelines for allocating system resources for VMs? Albin Otterhäll <gmane@otterhall.com> - 2016-05-14 11:10 +0200
  Re: Guidelines for allocating system resources for VMs? Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> - 2016-05-14 12:50 +0200
    Re: Guidelines for allocating system resources for VMs? Albin Otterhäll <gmane@otterhall.com> - 2016-05-14 13:40 +0200
      Re: Guidelines for allocating system resources for VMs? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2016-05-16 18:40 +0200

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