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Windows 7, RAM, & Virtualization Q

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I currently have a Lenovo T500 laptop w/4GB of RAM running VMWare Player, however I see that only 2.99GB of RAM is used. I'm wondering if VMWare player, with 512MB of RAM allocated to a virtual machine, can and will use my unused RAM.
 
If the host OS can't use the RAM I don't think VMWare Player can. I could be wrong though.
 
Ok, So if you have 4gb of ram. 2.99GB ram is used so you have 1GB free. So you can use 512 ram for the virtual machine.
 
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I think he's saying his laptop only sees 3GB of ram? in this case, the VM can only access what the main OS can, so if that's true then you can only use a maximum of 3gb total across both machines.

If you're running a 64bit OS and can see all 4gb, then yes you can set VMWare to allocate more then 512mb towards a vm
 
how much ram is needed for the average vmware scenario, but that I mean i install win2003 server adn a couple clients to test things.
 
Tomson said:
how much ram is needed for the average vmware scenario, but that I mean i install win2003 server adn a couple clients to test things.
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Depends on what exactly what those clients and what the server are doing.
 
On my esxi box, I can load up sbs 2008 (4gb), and two 2008 r2 std boxes with 2gb each.
The two std boxes aren't doing much and are used just for development testing.
 
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