No, definitely don’t provision all of it. Provision as much as you can spare. In most cases 4-8GB will be plenty for a VM depending on what you are doing inside of it. When you close the VM, how much memory is free on your system?
Ugh…Virtualbox hasn’t been seeing as much development as the others solutions.
You might try switching the VM from Wayland to X11 and see if that gets you better performance.
Make sure you have virtualbox-guest-utils installed
Do you have the virtualbox extension pack installed as well? I use Virtualbox all the time and allocate 2 cores, 4GB ram, bump the video to 256 MB, and get reasonable performance for basic tasks (no gaming, no video production, etc).
I make my EFI part 2GB because every time Microsoft say this is enough, this, turns out to be, not enough.
I know I have Linux now but MS still has their weasily little, greedy little paws in that specification so - can’t trust it ever.
Edit: OH yah, I also have about 37TB of drive space.
I should have read THIS comment first.
Nothing I haven’t done myself though.
We all have to learn.
If you’re looking at a portable Linux OS solution though, go out and grab a 1TB NvME and USB-C 3.2 or 2 if you can find it, external case…then install the Live ISO on THAT and give it TONS of casper file space and create a password for the default user and then create another root user and use that and bobs yer uncle. I already did that. It is NICE to have a fully operational OS when crap starts running downhill onto my PC 
I can only install the guest utils after I install the full OS first. At least that is what I am seeing in the tutorials. Correct me if I am wrong though.
I just installed it and I will let you know if performance is better. I do not know why my OS is so slow and choppy on my VM. My laptop literally has 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage space. The graphics are integrated. But anyways, I will let you know once I test it again.
I wanted to try Linux and learn the basics first so I just wanted it to install on a seperate device without having to override my Windows 11. I don’t think I wanna spend any money on this yet. There would be no reason to. If I am comfortable enough with Linux, then I will just wipe my Windows 11 and replace it with Linux.
I think that is wise.
I did much the same.
It took me 1.5 years to decide that it was time to make the switch.
I planned for it and it was successful.
Yours will be to.
Cheers!
Yes, that is correct.
If you continue to have all these performance problems, install VMware Workstation instead. It is free these days and works quite a bit better than VirtualBox on Windows. Also, try using X11 instead of Wayland inside your VM.
You could also install a Linux distribution in dualboot with your current Windows 11 on the same disk. When/if you will feel that Linux (only) is the way to go for you, then you can wipe out the whole disk and make a Linux only system.
Ok got it. After installing the extension pack and reinstalling the EndeavourOS on to the VM, it has booted a bit faster this time. However, I think I am stuck on the black screen after booting up Linux. When I hover on it, it is indeed the cursor of Linux but I am not sure if it is proceeding any further.
I might have to give those a try now.
EDIT: The system has booted but it still notably slower than my stick.
Yes, that is another option I will be doing once I am more comfortable with Linux. I also don’t wanna allocate any resources to it just yet.
Did you switch to X11?
I am installing it right now. I will update you once I test it on that.
Update: I used two USB sticks to install Endeavour on the main stick that I want 
Currently, the installation is going well and, fingers crossed, I am successfully able to load it on my stick. Currently, my system is running really fast. Like almost as native as my Windows 11 if not faster.
I checked, and I am on X11. Is there something I need to do more? I am still on USB live.
EDIT: After all the waiting… last moment:
