Hi. I have an i7 2.67GHz with 12GB RAM, and 2 HDDs, running 64-bit Win 7
Currently I have 4 virtual machines running, 2 on each HHD, all of them Win XP with 1536 Mb RAM and 50Gb HDD allocated for each of them. Also, I have software running on host OS, so I have to spare some resources for that.
Currently, performance is rather poor. Virtual machines are sluggish and not very responsive.
My questions are as follows:
- What can I comfortably do with this configuration? How many virtual machines can I host and with what stats, to get a good performance? Would adding extra HDDs help a lot? If yes, which kind?
- If I were to purchase a new host machine, or to upgrade an existing one, what would you recommend? And in general, with idea host configuration (again, which one is that?), how many virtual machines can be running at the same time without much drop in performance?
Thanks!