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Re: Guidelines for allocating system resources for VMs?

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On 14/05/16 10:05, Albin Otterhäll wrote:
> 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.

How much RAM and how many cores do you think the work in question needs?

Answer that, and you have the basis for your answer.

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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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