vmware Just woundering about VM ware

[Kade b]

I’m finishing my pc of tonight and I’m using a user friendly version of Linux called ubanto I think I’m woundering if I use VM ware can I use windows and one last question if I have 4 cores 8 threads and 16gb of ram can I use the windows virtual machine as if it had all of the same specs?

[mahyar]

first do you mean ubuntu? and for your question no its not recommend to give all of your system resources to vm i think 10g of ram 2 cores are good

[Master Disaster]

9 minutes ago, Kade b said:

I’m finishing my pc of tonight and I’m using a user friendly version of Linux called ubanto I think I’m woundering if I use VM ware can I use windows and one last question if I have 4 cores 8 threads and 16gb of ram can I use the windows virtual machine as if it had all of the same specs?

No, since its a virtualised device you will not be able to use it as if it was installed on bare metal. For example the GPU and soundcard will be emulated.

 

If you want to run Windows then why not just install Windows?

[Stahlmann]

If you want to use the full system in each OS, the next best thing would be to install each OS on a different drive and just boot to the one you want to use atm. No VM's needed.

[Nayr438]

59 minutes ago, Kade b said:

I’m finishing my pc of tonight and I’m using a user friendly version of Linux called ubanto I think I’m woundering if I use VM ware can I use windows and one last question if I have 4 cores 8 threads and 16gb of ram can I use the windows virtual machine as if it had all of the same specs?

No. Your best option would be virt-manager + libvirt + qemu, with GPU pass-through setup. This would however require you to have a second graphics card. You would also want dedicated cores and memory passed through for the VM if you don't want a big performance penalty, so you would need to figure out how much you would need to allocate to both the host and the VM.

 

If I were you, I would just dual boot.

[maplepants]

7 hours ago, Stahlmann98 said:

If you want to use the full system in each OS, the next best thing would be to install each OS on a different drive and just boot to the one you want to use atm. No VM's needed.

This is the correct answer. Correctly getting your VMs setup so that they’re both available at all times and with a GPU is going to a lot of work, especially if it’s your first time trying linux.

 

As long as you don’t need both Windows and Ubuntu at the same time, for some reason, then dual booting is your best bet. Buy a second drive, slap Ubuntu on there and then you’re cruising.