Virtual box - Installing a linux guest

When you're installing a linux guest do you need to make a SWAP partition? I'm on a Ubuntu host but I wanna install a few other distros as guests in virtual box. I read that you should make a SWAP partition thats twice as large as your RAM so since I have 2GB RAM I made a 4GB SWAP partition when I installed Ubuntu. For linux guests in virtual box on the other hand I'm obviously not gonna dedicate 4GB for a SWAP partition for every guest I have but I'm guessing virtual box guests can't use the same SWAP partition that the host uses so I'm wondering what kinda SWAP partitions I should give each guest OS.

Fonearena wrote:

When you're installing a linux guest do you need to make a SWAP partition? I'm on a Ubuntu host but I wanna install a few other distros as guests in virtual box. I read that you should make a SWAP partition thats twice as large as your RAM so since I have 2GB RAM I made a 4GB SWAP partition when I installed Ubuntu. For linux guests in virtual box on the other hand I'm obviously not gonna dedicate 4GB for a SWAP partition for every guest I have but I'm guessing virtual box guests can't use the same SWAP partition that the host uses so I'm wondering what kinda SWAP partitions I should give each guest OS.

OPO IKI:

what you mean ?