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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Does Windows virtual machine crash due to low RAM? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I installed Windows 11 in Virtual Box in case I need it for school but it keeps crashing. My laptop is 12gb RAM and I gave the VM 8gb RAM.

If I upgrade my laptop RAM to maybe 16gb and give the VM 12gb RAM would that help? Thanks I'm a newb

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I'm also virtualizing windows with kvm/qemu and my laptop's got 16 G of RAM; I gave the host and the guest 8 GB each and sometimes windows crashes when I'm doing memory intensive stuff on the linux(host) side. (video-rendering, heavy image editing, etc. It once crashed while running a python script with selenium)

The guest is windows 10 and it triples the host memory usage while idle.