Increasing RAM for Linux Lite guest in Virtualbox leads to desktop login prompt

[Moltke]

How much RAM do you have at your disposal for this experiment? I'm asking because Linux Lite needs only 1GB at the very least to run properly, of course, much more RAM means better performance...well, when it comes to VMs that may not be the case. You can assign lots of RAM and still get almost the same performance as with 1GB. If you're looking for better performance CPU is the key. If your machine has something like this or better yet like this one then you should be able to get a decent performance since you could assign more than one cpu to the VM, but if your machine has a quite old dual-core or even a quad-core processor it won't make much of a difference no matter how much RAM it uses cause you won't be able to surpass the 1 cpu limit unless you want to fry yours. I've been a virtualbox user for quite sometime now, run several VMs; Windows, Linux, android and  even Apple OS and I realized that they should be used for testing purposes only - at least for me - and not to take like a daily/work machine.


Hope this helps!