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Old 05-21-2009   #2 (permalink)
Steve Jain [MVP]


 
 

Re: Virtual PC - RAM

On Thu, 21 May 2009 19:34:16 -0700 (PDT), kellyapproved@xxxxxx
wrote:
Quote:

>When you setup a guest OS, you need to allocate RAM to it.
>
>Let's say you have a host with 3 GB of RAM with two guests, each of
>which you allocate 1 GB of RAM.
>
>If both guests are in use, the host and two guests will get 1 GB of
>RAM each.
>
>Is there a way to set it so that if only 1 guest is in use, it can
>draw on the spare RAM that is allocated to the other guest that is not
>used.
RAM is assigned statically. If you give your VM 1GB that is what it
will get, no more, no less. If there is not enough available, the VM
won't start.

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