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How to manage memory utilization by Windows VMs in Workstation 16 Pro 16.1.2

Hi,

Host OS is Windows 10 with 12GB RAM & i5-8250U.

I created two VMs; Windows 10 and Windows 11.

For both VMs, memory is 4GB, cores is 4 and HD is 100GB.

Whenever I use either of both VMs (one VM at a time), memory usages of host OS go beyond 80%.

I increased memory of both VMs to 8GB and used both Windows VMs one by one, memory usages of host OS go beyond 85-90%.

Whenever I use either of Windows VMs, I don’t use any applications on host OS.

However, the memory utilization is very high. Because of continuous high usages of memory utilization of host OS, I am afraid of hardware issue in RAM.

Please let me know, how to manage both VMs and memory utilization?

With Regards

NndnG

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scott28tt
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Buy more RAM?


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