VMware Workstation Questions.

Michaeljcox24 · 13 Nov 2010 at 11:22

if I allocate 2GB of RAM to a virtual machine is this permanently allocated leaving my host machine with 2GB (I have 4 in the host machine)

Can I disable this from booting up at start up, so it only uses resources like memory when I start the program? There appears to be no option to do this, and it automatically starts when I boot into Windows.

xJcBx · 13 Nov 2010 at 11:31

Is it in startup items?
Run msconfig and see in startup items. If it's in there remove it and it shouldn't allocate RAM at boot, mine doesn't.

Michaeljcox24 · 13 Nov 2010 at 11:34

It is yes, but I was wondering if there was an option to disable in the actual software

Aod · 13 Nov 2010 at 11:57

Michaeljcox24 said:
if I allocate 2GB of RAM to a virtual machine is this permanently allocated leaving my host machine with 2GB (I have 4 in the host machine)

Can I disable this from booting up at start up, so it only uses resources like memory when I start the program? There appears to be no option to do this, and it automatically starts when I boot into Windows.

no, when you allocate a Virtual Machine a certain amount of RAM, that ram is only used when the VM is both running and using all that RAM.

for Example, i build a windows Server 2003 machine and allocate it 2GB out of the 4GB that i have in my system.
i start the virtual machine and it gets to the desktop, but VMware is only using 256MB of ram because the VM doesn't need that much memory.

aside from that, VM's don't utilise any system resources when they're not running.

Michaeljcox24 · 13 Nov 2010 at 13:44

Thanks

Raumarik · 13 Nov 2010 at 15:52

You can also alter the amount of RAM allocated to the virtual machine prior to starting it.