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Re: Guidelines for allocating system resources for VMs?



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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