I have a workstation running Vista Business 32bit with 8gb RAM. The O/S will only recognize 3gb. Is there a way to tell a VM to use memory from the un-used bank of RAM?
Thanks!
Is this what you are referring to?
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEdrv.mspx
Your best bet would be to install Vista 64-bit on your Host.
VMware Workstation can only use the memory that the host OS reports as being available.
If fhe OS can only recognize 3GB, then you are most likely only going to be able to use a little over 2GB for the VM's, since you need memory to run the host OS and the overhead needed to run the VM's
I tried enabling PAE, but that didn't seem to have any impact (after a reboot). Unfortunately, I had w a y too many problems when I tried using 64bit Vista on the host. Couldn't find printer drivers, application problems, etc.
my apologies, I misread the post. I thought OP wanted to see 4GB, not the entire 8
I pretty much knew the O/S wasn't going to be able to do it. I was hopeful that the VMware would have some sort of driver that would allow it to access the unusued memory. Alas, I believe I'm out of luck.
Thanks for the replies!