Will a virtual machine make my pc slow even if it’s turned off

nonsense. · April 30

I'm new to vm stuff and I have read that vm can make your pc slower because something called (Resource reservation) it's a feature that make your vms faster and stable so I was wondering how to check this in virtual box also is there anything like this feature that can make my pc slower ? Because I have old pc that just able to run some games and every frame matter and I want a Linux vm to test stuff and code sometimes.

BuggedCookie · April 30

11 minutes ago, nonsense. said:

I'm new to vm stuff and I have read that vm can make your pc slower because something called (Resource reservation) it's a feature that make your vms faster and stable so I was wondering how to check this in virtual box also is there anything like this feature that can make my pc slower ? Because I have old pc that just able to run some games and every frame matter and I want a Linux vm to test stuff and code sometimes.

A closed VM shouldn't normally affect your computer's performance, if it's completely off !
But it will take storage space based on how much storage you allocated it, but no again you should be fine

Caroline · April 30

No.

Don't use a VM if you have a junkyard PC, it's gonna be painfully slow. Get another drive or partition the one you have and dual boot, keep the Windows bootloader instead of GRUB tho, as it's already installed.

nonsense. · April 30

6 minutes ago, Caroline said:

No.

Don't use a VM if you have a junkyard PC, it's gonna be painfully slow. Get another drive or partition the one you have and dual boot, keep the Windows bootloader instead of GRUB tho, as it's already installed.

I have ryzen 7 3700x and rtx 2070 my point not the hardware it's cooling because it's old lenovo tower that have only one exhaust fan in the back my gpu get overheated super fast when gaming although when it's windows 11 idle or Linux it's chilling also getting drive for testing isn't ideal because I will reinstall the os more often and it's painful sometimes but vm makes it easier to test stuff but what I read say Resource reservation is a feature that do what it says if you allocate a 8gb ram it will be for the vm only my windows 11 can't access it so the more I allocate, the slower my PC gets but after a good research It was ON and I don't want more features that intended for servers that slow my pc.