32GB is the sweet spot for multiple VMs

Yes, it helps a lot. More than you might think.

Each VM eats a chunk of RAM just to boot. Give a Windows VM 4GB, a Linux VM 2GB, and you’re already at 6GB before the host has any room to breathe. With 16GB, you’re constantly juggling—closing browsers, killing Docker containers, hoping the swap file doesn’t betray you. With 32GB, you stop thinking about it.

The difference isn’t just capacity. It’s that VMs perform worse when they’re starved. If your host starts paging to disk, every VM slows down with it. 32GB lets you allocate comfortably to three or four VMs and still run your actual desktop apps without drama.

So yes. If you run multiple VMs regularly, 32GB is the upgrade that actually feels like an upgrade. Don’t overthink it.