Just curious if there are a lot of you out there that benefit in the duality of a host machine and a guest machine. I find it very helpful and beneficial. I run a windows host with a linux guest, specifically Ubuntu 22.04 for the time being.

If so what virtual manager interface do you use? I use VirtualBox as its free and mostly reliable. There was a bug I had experienced recently where no matter what settings were changed that the guest machine would face a memory error and force close when the host machine was left idle. Implementing many thought to be fixes did nothing in the end. Seemingly yesterday, VB released an update that has definitely changed something on my end and I haven't experienced the error anymore.

What do you use your guest machine for? I used mine simply for learning linux in general but also the added benefits of being able to do more with your system and not be so limited. Now I do 80% of my internet surfing from it without even paying attention to which machine I'm on.

What's your setup? I'm using a 350GB dynamically allocated (used to be fixed) storage, with 12GB of ram and two processors. I run a two network adapter system with the first being a host-only adapter and the second being bridged and assigned a static IP on the same range as my host network for benefits. Makes things really easy and communicates well.

What keeps you from trying if you have not used a virtual machine? I love tinkering around with and making new machines to experience different software OS and versions. Keeps me fresh and up to date.

Any way, thought I'd make a bit of conversation here about something I love to do. Love to hear from you all about what and why you use.