Does VMWare have a memory whitepaper somewhere?

[alank2]

Hi,

I've recently switched to using VM's in VM7 workstation. I only have 4gb on memory on the host, so that limits what I can do.

My questions are:

What do the various memory parameters do:

Memory tab: reserved memory and additional memory swap settings

When does the hosts pagefile come into play? When does the VM's pagefile come into play? Should both a host and vm have a pagefile? Or should one have one and the other not.

Would it be better to configure the VM to not have a pagefile and let VMWare do the swapping at a higher level to the hosts pagefile?

What does usenamefile in the config.ini do?

What does useRecommendedLockedMemSize do?

Why does the working set start out as the memory you've allocated + 200mb and even when you tell VM to keep it all in host ram, will it drop down to about half of its peak?

Thanks,

Alan

[continuum]

Should both a host and vm have a pagefile?

Of course - IMHO Windows always should have a pagefile

For your other questions I do not know a white paper - but maybe my notes here help a bit

http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-config-ini.html

http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-advanced.html#mainmem




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[alank2]

Hi,

I set only this option in config.ini:

mainmem.usenamedfile = "false"

and noticed that the working set numbers are no longer dropping. They are staying up at 1206mb for a 1024mb VM. Could this one option also prevent it from trimming?

Thanks,

Alan