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Old 10-17-2009   #1 (permalink)
Steve Jain [MVP]


 
 

Re: Guest set RAM size versus host VPC2007 Working set / Private bytes ?

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:56:59 +0200, Poutnik <me@newsgroup> wrote:
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>I have recently installed Windows 7 RC 32bit
>as a guest on VirtualPC 2007 on my Vista Home Premium 64bit.
>
>I have set for it 1 GB RAM.
>But, at my surprise, when lookit at Process Explorer on Vista,
>it shows both Working set and Private byte near to 64 MB.
>
>Similarly, for my guest Windows 2000 Professional SP4,
>with RAM set to 512 MB,
>the mentioned settings are near 30 MB.
>
>One would say VPC allocates only needed RAM,
>but around 60-65 MB it seems for Windows 7 32
>too nice to be true..., so dead ratio 1 : 2
>W2k versus W7.
Process explorer only shows the VPC app mem usage, not the VMs usage.

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Old 10-18-2009   #2 (permalink)
Poutnik


 
 

Re: Guest set RAM size versus host VPC2007 Working set / Private bytes ?

In article <qphkd5l79i1hriuc29eu4omv9dcb527qnr@newsgroup>, noreply.-
@-.essjae.com says...
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> Process explorer only shows the VPC app mem usage, not the VMs usage.
I have realized that.
But, is not a VM part of the VPC app ?

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Old 10-18-2009   #3 (permalink)
Steve Jain [MVP]


 
 

Re: Guest set RAM size versus host VPC2007 Working set / Private bytes ?

On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:35:37 +0200, Poutnik <me@newsgroup> wrote:
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>In article <qphkd5l79i1hriuc29eu4omv9dcb527qnr@newsgroup>, noreply.-
>@-.essjae.com says...
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>
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>> Process explorer only shows the VPC app mem usage, not the VMs usage.
>
>I have realized that.
>But, is not a VM part of the VPC app ?
Not as far as memory usage goes, its not directly assigned to the .exe
file. Nnone of the VM programs report memory this way (VBox, VMware,
VPC, Virtual Server).

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Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
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http://smudj.wordpress.com/
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