elfprince The reason why I don't do VM s often because they take too much of my 8G RAM
Remember, they don't exclusively take over that much RAM, they just share that resource. Just as you can choose a bridged virtual network card to share the host machine's network connection, like I do. That's how my VMs can access the NAS shares that require that host connection to access.
That's part of VirtualBox's magic. Sharing some RAM with the VM doesn't affect the host very much unless the host shares all the RAM it has, and the guest is really cranking away on something.
This laptop came with more RAM, so I share 4 GB with my VMs. And the first extra processor core you share matters the most. Additional cores help increasingly less, so there's no real reason to share more than two cores with a VM. I share 4 GB of RAM and 4 cores, because I have16 in this machine, and no reason not to.
I love VirtualBox. ππΌ (And I sure wish we could get the forum icons working again.)