title: Do virtual machines need swap partitions?
body: <p>I am running Ubuntu on my physical machine; and VirtualBox to run various virtual ones on top. </p>
  
  <p>Most of the time, I was doing "straight forward" installations; but today I wanted to be "smart" and checked out the partitions that the fedora or ubuntu installers will create on my virtual disks. </p>
  
  <p>And sure, when going for the defaults, some GBs of my virtual disks will be used as "swap space". </p>
  
  <p>Now I am wondering: assuming that I have plenty of physical memory (so I can assign 6 or 8 GB to a VM) - is there any sense in dedicated swap space for a a virtual machine?</p>