Has anyone tried running multiple VMs on the i5 variant of the laptop with 16gb of RAM? Can you describe how the laptop handles it and the performance?
I have run 3 VMs (2 Linux and 1 Windows) using Hyper-V (Windows 11) just fine (16GB Ram but non-vpro i7 variant). Hyper-V is very good at sharing resources, my memory sits at 90% usage on the host (because of the resources I assigned) but yeah, no noticeable issues.
How about with VirtualBox and VMware?
@john_doe I have a windows 10 VM running in Opensuse Tumbleweed using the KVM hypervisor. Runs great, performance is decent, sound works everything is running smoothly.
32gb ram here running i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz
I have rhel8, rockylinx, windows10 and ubuntu VMs using KVM, libvirt, qemu all under Almalinux. I have i7-1165G7 with 16gb RAM. No issues at all and running great. Not all VMs running everytime in laptop. Just 1 VM as FTP service. I switch, remove create and add VMs to do some testing.
So my config is an i7/32GB model - different from tlwhat you’re asking about. But I can confirm that Virtualbox and Hyper-V work great on my system. I use both simultaneously for different reasons.
I cannot speak for VMware.