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Hello all I would like to know what kind of equipment you use as PLC programmers or as technologists of automation and processes. What do you recommend for using programs such as TIA and other Siemens software, Studio 5000, IQ works and other automation programs. Please give your opinions on what you use and what you would use. greetings to all and all the best Klemen

Hello Dear Friend, Need some advice regarding using the Virtual Machines. I bought a new laptop for office use. (for Programming various PLC and designing HMI/SCADA etc...)   The configurations of the Laptop are as below. Model - Asus Tuf Gaming F15 Processor - Intel Core I5-10300H 10th Generation RAM - 8GB DDR4 HDD - 1TB SSD M.2 NVMe PCIe Graphics - 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti GDDR6 2.5 GHz Base Speed, Up to 4.5 GHz Turbo Boost Speed, 8MB Cache, 4 Cores, 8 Threads.   I have never used Virtual Machine before, but this time I am planning to install all the automation-related software on VMs. Main System - Windows 7 64bit + MS Office + Accounting Software + Mail etc. I am planning to create 4 VMs as of now. VM1 - Windows 7 + Schneider Software (Control Expert, Machine Expert, Citect, Vijeo Designer, etc...) VM2 - Windows 7 + Omron + Delta + Fuji Software VM3 - Windoes 7 + Siemens Software VM4 - Windows 7 + Rockwell Softwares   I am planning to make two partitions of 1 TB SSD. Partition-1 for Main System (100 GB) Partition-2 VMs and all other Data (900 GB)   I will not run more than 1 VM at a time. All the VMs will be used to run the software only. I am planning to store all the project backups outside the VMs.   Now my Questions -  1) Should I use the VMs ? 2) Which VM software should I use? (I am preferring Freeware) 3) How much RAM and Processor should be assigned to each VM ? 4) How to configure a Graphics card to improve the performance of VM ? 5) How to access the storage of partition 2 in all the VMs to store all the data outside of VM ? 6) How do VMs use Processing Power of CPU and RAM ?   Please share your valuable suggestion and answers.   Have a Good Day.