VM Resources

Your VMs take up resources from the host system. This includes hard drive space, memory, and number of CPU cores. Let's see how many cores and how much memory you have on your Host system so that we can plan out your VM resources.

Press the "Windows" key on your keyboard and type "About". This will bring up a screen where you can see the number of cpu cores you have available, and how much memory. Next to the processor name, it will show the number of CPU cores on your Host system after the letter "x".

Depending on your VM setup you've planned for, you may decide you want to run multiple VMs at the same time. Depending on how much resources you can provide, this may or may not be a good idea. On a weak system, one VM may be your limit. On a strong system, you have the option of running multiple VMs at once with low resources, or one VM at a time with alot of resources.

Perhaps you may have one or two VMs that you want to give alot of resources to, but the rest can be low resources. Figuring out what you can do with reasonable responsiveness will likely require testing. The safest option is just to run one VM at a time.

Once you have a plan, or you are ready to test, go to the settings for a VM. Under "system", you can change the amount of memory allocated to that VM.

If you change the tab to "Processor", you can change how many CPU cores are allocated to that VM.