To add a bit more, VMWare is an app like any other. When it is running a
virtual machine it uses up CPU and RAM but once you quit it it takes up
only disk space. The disk space, as previously mentioned, is allocated
as you use it. So I usually give 60GB to my virtual machine knowing that
I'll only use a few of those GB for the initial Windows install plus
whatever else I put in. How many actual GB Windows takes depends on what
version. Win7 with the basics like Jaws and Firefox can easily eat up
10GB. For most folks disk space is a lot more available than RAM or CPU.
I don't know as much about RAM but CPU is like most apps. If you just
have VMWare with Windows sitting there doing nothing you'll use very
little of your Mac's CPU. I usually try to allocate at least two CPU on
Windows newer than XP. I generally give 512MB RAM to XP, 1024MB to
anything newer and 2048MB to any 64-bit Windows. Of course you can't do
that if it will starve your Mac side. If your machine only has two CPUs
and 2GB RAM, don't allocate it all to Windows or things will bottleneck
quickly.
CB
On 12/30/13 6:29 AM, Piotr Machacz wrote:
The requirements for disk space and ram depend non the windows version. XP
doesn’t need much, you could probably do with even 256MB and a couple gigs of
disk space, but I’d recommend at least 512 or a gig of ram. Newer windows need
more, for vista and seven you need a gig of ram and 20 gigs of disk space just
for the OS.
As far as resource usage, of course it has to come from somewhere, so they
won’t be available on the mac. The good thing though is that the settings you
choose for the VM aren’t immediately allocated. So, if your VM has 2 gigs of
ram, but the VM is only using half of it, then vmware won’t use those 2 gigs as
long as it’s not needed. The same holds for the CPU, where you can also specify
how many cores a VM can use. But again it won’t immediately use all of it. For
disk space, you can choose if you want it to already allocate the space (EG, a
20 gig virtual disk would already be 20 gigs), or not (so then that file
wouldn’t take up the space if it’s not being used).
For games, you can play audio games and anything light. But if you want to play
main stream games that use a lot of video card resources, you’ll be better off
setting up a bootcamp partition, so the game can use all the resources of your
mac.
On 30 Dec 2013, at 10:24 am, Andrew Head <ath...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
Hi all,
Just got a question about windows on the mac in virtual machine. Can someone
please explain how this works exactly? I know you can assign a certain disc
space, ram, etc to use windows. How does this work? what is the least amount of
hard drive space needed to run windows and what’s the least amount of ram
needed? Because this hard drive space and ram is being used for windows, does
this effect things on the mac side, do you now have less hard drive space and
ram on the mac side of things because part of the computer is now being used
for windows?
And what if you were using windows for something requiring a lot of processing
power, such as game play? if you chose the least amount of ram and hard drive
space, does this then effect how well programs will run under windows and how
much storage space you have under windows?
I hope this email makes sense, and thanks in advance for answering my questions.
Hope everyone has a good day and a safe, blessed and happy new year.
Andrew
Sent from my 11 inch macbook air
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