[SOLVED] Can the Core i5-4300m run 4 virtual machines?

Nov 15, 2018
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Hi there I am going to run around 3 4 virtual machines at then same time. My laptop is i5-4300m , 16GB ram and 1TB SSD. Should it be able to run it? How about the i5-6200U with the same spec. Thanks
 
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What virtualization are you looking at using? What OS are you looking to be installed on the VMs? How much do you care about performance? In theory yes you could do it, but you will most likely be pretty close to your 16GB of RAM on your laptop which will hurt performance. Also if you are hoping to have them all doing computational tasks at the same time the host machine and all the VMs will be fighting for very limited CPU resources, only 2 cores 4 threads.
What virtualization are you looking at using? What OS are you looking to be installed on the VMs? How much do you care about performance? In theory yes you could do it, but you will most likely be pretty close to your 16GB of RAM on your laptop which will hurt performance. Also if you are hoping to have them all doing computational tasks at the same time the host machine and all the VMs will be fighting for very limited CPU resources, only 2 cores 4 threads.
 
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USAFRet

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16GB is pretty slim for 4x VM's.

This is my system running 4 + the host Win 10
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20 GB consumed. 4GB each VM, and then whatever the host is using.

What will these VM's be doing, with what OS?
 

uguv

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Memory is usually much more of a limiting factor for running VMs than CPU, but unless they are all sitting idle, running 4 VMs (plus possibly a host if you're using the laptop as a client) is going to really tax the 2 cores in the i5-4300m.