After many years of using VMWare Workstation (currently v 15.5.6) to create and use DotNet (Visual studio, SQL, IIS) Development Environments, and trying to follow best practices, I'm finally looking for the right settings (Swap, disks, etc) to give me a development machine that is as responsive and efficient as possible. Best practices seem to vary by source, so I thought I'd expand my search into the userbase.

My host is running Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon (soon to be 20)

Intel i4790K running at 4GHz

32 GB Ram

SSD for root and /home filesystems

8Gb Swap also on SSD, typically about 500M in use when VMs running

Development Guest (May be 1 or possibly 2 running at a time in virtual network):

Windows 10 , configured with 2 Processors 4GB memory, and single virtual disk per VM settings.

So, my question is what configurations others might recommend to make the Guest feel as much like pure iron as possible, without killing the Host for other things.