Martin Read: > 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. > > The thing is that I don't know (don't know how to access the necessary information either), and assigning as much as possible would probably be the best solution.
I plan in the future buy a GPU and use PCI passthrough to use a VM for gaming, and then I would need to assign as much resources as possible. -- Regards, Albin
