How much RAM to be allocated to Ubuntu and Kali in Oracle VM Virtual Box? [on hold]
My host machine is Windows 10 Pro (64 bit). I have installed Oracle VM Virtual Box 6.0.0 in Windows. I want to install Ubuntu 18.04 lts and also Kali linux (Kali Linux Vbox 64 Bit Ova)(3.6 GB) both inside the Virtual Box. How much RAM should I allocate to each one of them? Is there an optimum standardized answer for this? Please help.
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My host machine is Windows 10 Pro (64 bit). I have installed Oracle VM Virtual Box 6.0.0 in Windows. I want to install Ubuntu 18.04 lts and also Kali linux (Kali Linux Vbox 64 Bit Ova)(3.6 GB) both inside the Virtual Box. How much RAM should I allocate to each one of them? Is there an optimum standardized answer for this? Please help.
18.04 virtualbox kali
asked 2 days ago
Shirshendu DeShirshendu De
139
put on hold as primarily opinion-based by karel, Charles Green, DK Bose, pomsky, Kevin Bowen 2 days ago
Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise. If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
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Possible duplicate of Improve performance of Ubuntu guest in VirtualBox on Windows 10 host
– karel
2 days ago
But here Windows is the host and inside Virtual Box there will be two - Ubuntu and Kali. So how much RAM to each one of them inside virtual box ?
– Shirshendu De
2 days ago
1
Same Windows 10 host, but there are two guest OSs, Ubuntu and Kali instead of one guest OS. Realistically most of the time you will be running only one guest OS at a time, so your hardware resource allocation would be similar, otherwise you will have to split the resource allocation into 3 thirds instead of 2 equal halves. Or split resource allocation into two halves by default and reconfigure resource allocation temporarily if you ever want to go with 3 thirds instead of 2 halves as a one-shot deal.
– karel
2 days ago
Can I go in this way Kali (2GB) & Ubuntu (2GB)? OR Ubuntu (2GB) and Kali (1.5 GB)
– Shirshendu De
2 days ago
1
Yes, as long as you leave enough resources for the physical machine to use so that the Windows 10 host will be able to run smoothly.
– karel
2 days ago
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My host machine is Windows 10 Pro (64 bit). I have installed Oracle VM Virtual Box 6.0.0 in Windows. I want to install Ubuntu 18.04 lts and also Kali linux (Kali Linux Vbox 64 Bit Ova)(3.6 GB) both inside the Virtual Box. How much RAM should I allocate to each one of them? Is there an optimum standardized answer for this? Please help.
18.04 virtualbox kali
asked 2 days ago
Shirshendu DeShirshendu De
139
My host machine is Windows 10 Pro (64 bit). I have installed Oracle VM Virtual Box 6.0.0 in Windows. I want to install Ubuntu 18.04 lts and also Kali linux (Kali Linux Vbox 64 Bit Ova)(3.6 GB) both inside the Virtual Box. How much RAM should I allocate to each one of them? Is there an optimum standardized answer for this? Please help.
18.04 virtualbox kali
18.04 virtualbox kali
asked 2 days ago
Shirshendu DeShirshendu De
139
asked 2 days ago
Shirshendu DeShirshendu De
139
asked 2 days ago
Shirshendu DeShirshendu De
139
asked 2 days ago
Shirshendu DeShirshendu De
139
asked 2 days ago
Shirshendu DeShirshendu De
139
139
put on hold as primarily opinion-based by karel, Charles Green, DK Bose, pomsky, Kevin Bowen 2 days ago
Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise. If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
put on hold as primarily opinion-based by karel, Charles Green, DK Bose, pomsky, Kevin Bowen 2 days ago
Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise. If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
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Possible duplicate of Improve performance of Ubuntu guest in VirtualBox on Windows 10 host
– karel
2 days ago
But here Windows is the host and inside Virtual Box there will be two - Ubuntu and Kali. So how much RAM to each one of them inside virtual box ?
– Shirshendu De
2 days ago
1
Same Windows 10 host, but there are two guest OSs, Ubuntu and Kali instead of one guest OS. Realistically most of the time you will be running only one guest OS at a time, so your hardware resource allocation would be similar, otherwise you will have to split the resource allocation into 3 thirds instead of 2 equal halves. Or split resource allocation into two halves by default and reconfigure resource allocation temporarily if you ever want to go with 3 thirds instead of 2 halves as a one-shot deal.
– karel
2 days ago
Can I go in this way Kali (2GB) & Ubuntu (2GB)? OR Ubuntu (2GB) and Kali (1.5 GB)
– Shirshendu De
2 days ago
1
Yes, as long as you leave enough resources for the physical machine to use so that the Windows 10 host will be able to run smoothly.
– karel
2 days ago
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Possible duplicate of Improve performance of Ubuntu guest in VirtualBox on Windows 10 host
– karel
2 days ago
But here Windows is the host and inside Virtual Box there will be two - Ubuntu and Kali. So how much RAM to each one of them inside virtual box ?
– Shirshendu De
2 days ago
1
Same Windows 10 host, but there are two guest OSs, Ubuntu and Kali instead of one guest OS. Realistically most of the time you will be running only one guest OS at a time, so your hardware resource allocation would be similar, otherwise you will have to split the resource allocation into 3 thirds instead of 2 equal halves. Or split resource allocation into two halves by default and reconfigure resource allocation temporarily if you ever want to go with 3 thirds instead of 2 halves as a one-shot deal.
– karel
2 days ago
Can I go in this way Kali (2GB) & Ubuntu (2GB)? OR Ubuntu (2GB) and Kali (1.5 GB)
– Shirshendu De
2 days ago
1
Yes, as long as you leave enough resources for the physical machine to use so that the Windows 10 host will be able to run smoothly.
– karel
2 days ago
1
1
Possible duplicate of Improve performance of Ubuntu guest in VirtualBox on Windows 10 host
– karel
2 days ago
Possible duplicate of Improve performance of Ubuntu guest in VirtualBox on Windows 10 host
– karel
2 days ago
But here Windows is the host and inside Virtual Box there will be two - Ubuntu and Kali. So how much RAM to each one of them inside virtual box ?
– Shirshendu De
2 days ago
But here Windows is the host and inside Virtual Box there will be two - Ubuntu and Kali. So how much RAM to each one of them inside virtual box ?
– Shirshendu De
2 days ago
1
1
Same Windows 10 host, but there are two guest OSs, Ubuntu and Kali instead of one guest OS. Realistically most of the time you will be running only one guest OS at a time, so your hardware resource allocation would be similar, otherwise you will have to split the resource allocation into 3 thirds instead of 2 equal halves. Or split resource allocation into two halves by default and reconfigure resource allocation temporarily if you ever want to go with 3 thirds instead of 2 halves as a one-shot deal.
– karel
2 days ago
Same Windows 10 host, but there are two guest OSs, Ubuntu and Kali instead of one guest OS. Realistically most of the time you will be running only one guest OS at a time, so your hardware resource allocation would be similar, otherwise you will have to split the resource allocation into 3 thirds instead of 2 equal halves. Or split resource allocation into two halves by default and reconfigure resource allocation temporarily if you ever want to go with 3 thirds instead of 2 halves as a one-shot deal.
– karel
2 days ago
Can I go in this way Kali (2GB) & Ubuntu (2GB)? OR Ubuntu (2GB) and Kali (1.5 GB)
– Shirshendu De
2 days ago
Can I go in this way Kali (2GB) & Ubuntu (2GB)? OR Ubuntu (2GB) and Kali (1.5 GB)
– Shirshendu De
2 days ago
1
1
Yes, as long as you leave enough resources for the physical machine to use so that the Windows 10 host will be able to run smoothly.
– karel
2 days ago
Yes, as long as you leave enough resources for the physical machine to use so that the Windows 10 host will be able to run smoothly.
– karel
2 days ago
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There is no standardized amount of RAM for VMs, just bear in mind that an OS without enough RAM might write data into cache hereby slowing done your work.
- As karel said, depending of your host amount of RAM, if you plan to use both VMs at the same time you'll need to divide the resources: for instance, if you have 8GB of RAM, you can allocate 2GB for each ubuntu and kali which don't require a lot, saving 4GB for your Windows host.
- If you need to use only one VM at the time, you might have more "freedom" with 4GB of RAM for your linux system.
In my experience, saving 4GB of RAM for a Windows host is enough as far as no resource-intensive task run on it.
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There is no standardized amount of RAM for VMs, just bear in mind that an OS without enough RAM might write data into cache hereby slowing done your work.
- As karel said, depending of your host amount of RAM, if you plan to use both VMs at the same time you'll need to divide the resources: for instance, if you have 8GB of RAM, you can allocate 2GB for each ubuntu and kali which don't require a lot, saving 4GB for your Windows host.
- If you need to use only one VM at the time, you might have more "freedom" with 4GB of RAM for your linux system.
In my experience, saving 4GB of RAM for a Windows host is enough as far as no resource-intensive task run on it.
answered 2 days ago
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There is no standardized amount of RAM for VMs, just bear in mind that an OS without enough RAM might write data into cache hereby slowing done your work.
- As karel said, depending of your host amount of RAM, if you plan to use both VMs at the same time you'll need to divide the resources: for instance, if you have 8GB of RAM, you can allocate 2GB for each ubuntu and kali which don't require a lot, saving 4GB for your Windows host.
- If you need to use only one VM at the time, you might have more "freedom" with 4GB of RAM for your linux system.
In my experience, saving 4GB of RAM for a Windows host is enough as far as no resource-intensive task run on it.
answered 2 days ago
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There is no standardized amount of RAM for VMs, just bear in mind that an OS without enough RAM might write data into cache hereby slowing done your work.
- As karel said, depending of your host amount of RAM, if you plan to use both VMs at the same time you'll need to divide the resources: for instance, if you have 8GB of RAM, you can allocate 2GB for each ubuntu and kali which don't require a lot, saving 4GB for your Windows host.
- If you need to use only one VM at the time, you might have more "freedom" with 4GB of RAM for your linux system.
In my experience, saving 4GB of RAM for a Windows host is enough as far as no resource-intensive task run on it.
answered 2 days ago
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There is no standardized amount of RAM for VMs, just bear in mind that an OS without enough RAM might write data into cache hereby slowing done your work.
- As karel said, depending of your host amount of RAM, if you plan to use both VMs at the same time you'll need to divide the resources: for instance, if you have 8GB of RAM, you can allocate 2GB for each ubuntu and kali which don't require a lot, saving 4GB for your Windows host.
- If you need to use only one VM at the time, you might have more "freedom" with 4GB of RAM for your linux system.
In my experience, saving 4GB of RAM for a Windows host is enough as far as no resource-intensive task run on it.
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Possible duplicate of Improve performance of Ubuntu guest in VirtualBox on Windows 10 host
– karel
2 days ago
But here Windows is the host and inside Virtual Box there will be two - Ubuntu and Kali. So how much RAM to each one of them inside virtual box ?
– Shirshendu De
2 days ago
1
Same Windows 10 host, but there are two guest OSs, Ubuntu and Kali instead of one guest OS. Realistically most of the time you will be running only one guest OS at a time, so your hardware resource allocation would be similar, otherwise you will have to split the resource allocation into 3 thirds instead of 2 equal halves. Or split resource allocation into two halves by default and reconfigure resource allocation temporarily if you ever want to go with 3 thirds instead of 2 halves as a one-shot deal.
– karel
2 days ago
Can I go in this way Kali (2GB) & Ubuntu (2GB)? OR Ubuntu (2GB) and Kali (1.5 GB)
– Shirshendu De
2 days ago
1
Yes, as long as you leave enough resources for the physical machine to use so that the Windows 10 host will be able to run smoothly.
– karel
2 days ago