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

Larry Brigman larry.brigman at gmail.com
Tue May 29 18:25:14 UTC 2007


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.)
>
Look at the vmx file associated with your image with a text editor.
The memsize value is what you are looking for to change memory being presented
to the program as real available memory.



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