Where to store VMs -- on SSD along with OS, or on separate drive (HDD)?

[shmu26]

host: windows 10 pro x64, on SSD

i-5 6500

8 gb ram

guests:

windows xp x86

windows 7 x86

xubuntu x86

I use VMs mainly for light apps, with an occasional burst of CPU activity when I am using a search tool.

Is it better to keep the VMs on the SSD, with the OS, or better to put them on a separate disk, which in my case would have to be a HDD?

[cjscol]

If your guest VMs have only light disk utilisation requirements then it doesn't really matter where you store them.

What is the capacity of the SSD? Do you require this capacity for anything else? Is you have spare capacity on the SSD that you don't need for anything else then use the SSD.

if the VMs have a high disk utilisation requirements then they will benefit by the better performance of the SSD but will have to contend with the host OS, however, this will probably be better than storing them on a slower HDD.

What protection level do you require for your VMs? Is there any RAID level configured on the SSD or the HDD, e.g. do you have two SDDs configured in a RAID-1 array?

[shmu26]

thanks.

I have no protection requirements for the VMs

and no raid setup

I have plenty of room on my 250 gb SSD, so I could go either way.

my biggest usage of VM (don't laugh) is a legacy digital library that runs on WinXP. I search its data base (stored locally) and display results.