VirtualBox would probably be my first choice for Linux Mint as well. This will not physically take that away from your machine per-say - what will happen is if the virtual machine has a hard disk size of 10GB & you use only 5GB of this allocation, you will only lose 5GB of physical space on your machine. I/O seems to be the often overlooked component that leads to sluggish VM performance. We use a bunch of virtualized machines for Windows ( Hyper-V on the servers and VirtualBox on the desktops) and they work quite well, just make sure you have enough resources (CPU/RAM/IO) on the host to ensure good performance. You can get the same performance out of a "dynamically expanding" drive through compaction and using sdelete.exe to clean up the free space, but it is more work and needs to be done periodically to maintain similar performance.Make sure the container is adequately defragmented, as well as the virtual drive itself. Don't pick the "automatically expand" option as performance tends to degrade over time as the bytes get written all over. I would start with at least an 80GB virtual drive - but really it depends entirely on what you are going to install and how large your working data set is.At least 2GB of RAM, but it may need more depending on what you are developing (do you need SQL Server on the same VM?).At least two virtual cores, more will be better.
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