Question Is it ok to set up and use VMs on a system SSD?

[danny009]

Hi fellow friends, My host laptop is a Windows 10 with its internal SSD plenty of space. I plan to set up an linux then Windows 11 virtual machines. Is it ok to use it on my system SSD? I mean limited writes and all that. Thank you

 

[COLGeek]

Yes. Perfectly fine. Proceed.

 

[danny009]

Yes. Perfectly fine. Proceed.

32308856 units of 512KB (data units written)
234451033 (write commands)
909 (power on hours)
1027 (power cycles)
%97 Health Normal

WD 512GB NVMe Gen 4 WD PC SN735,

Am I doing okay with this SSD?

 

[COLGeek]

Yes. Having a higher storage capacity would be nice, but your SSD is fine.

 

[USAFRet]

How much RAM is in this system?

And yes, your drive could be larger with multiple VM's.

 

[danny009]

How much RAM is in this system?

And yes, your drive could be larger with multiple VM's.

Thank you, 16gigs of RAM, I marked other persons reply as solution and I did marked your reply as a solution as well in another universe where Jedi and Sith talks to each other.

 

[USAFRet]

Thank you, 16gigs of RAM, I marked other persons reply as solution and I did marked your reply as a solution as well in another universe where Jedi and Sith talks to each other.

16GB might be kind of slim, depending on what these VMs are doing, and how many at once.

Here is 4 different VMs and the host Win 10 Pro.
32GB RAM, 20GB consumed.

 

[danny009]

16GB might be kind of slim, depending on what these VMs are doing, and how many at once.

Here is 4 different VMs and the host Win 10 Pro.
32GB RAM, 20GB consumed.

I see you all of your VMs running on Oracle's Virtualbox, I used to use VMware but some third party tech purchased the corp and completely ruined the download page and made it mandatory to log in plus asking bunch of personal info just to start the download so I returned to Virtualbox too. Shame because VMware had this awesome feature to bump up the VRAM to 8GB while Virtualbox have it max 256MB.

 

[COLGeek]

@USAFRet is correct. I assume you won't be running multiple VMs very often. If so, upgrade your memory as he suggested.

 

[Misgar]

I managed to run a Windows 10 Pro VM in Hyper-V on a dual core Pentium G3258 with only 8GB RAM total for host and VM. No fancy apps, but nothing broke.

 

[USAFRet]

I managed to run a Windows 10 Pro VM in Hyper-V on a dual core Pentium G3258 with only 8GB RAM total for host and VM. No fancy apps, but nothing broke.

I had about the same at one time.

Win 7 or 8 and some WinServer variant.