[PLUG] using VM Ware for "real" work -- has any one had success with this?

[Jason Martin]

On 5/29/07, Rogan Creswick <creswick at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/29/07, Jason Martin <nsxfreddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > How much physical memory does your host system have, and how much of
> > that have you allocated to the guest?  The disk thrashing could be
> > Windows using the page file, especially given what type of apps you're
> > trying to run.
>
> 1 gig now, should have another gig sometime in the near future.
>
> I don't know how to allocate memory to the VM. with VM Ware player,
> but it seems to use about 50% of my system memory, so it's probably
> using 512.  As far as I can tell, tweaking memory allocation isn't a
> feature of the free version of VMware (I could be wrong.)

Right, it is a feature of workstation, or of other ways to create/edit
the VMware image.  You should be able to edit the .vmx file directly
(while the VM isn't running obviously) and edit the memsize line.

Jason