Virtual Machine Tab - How it works ?

[dbiaggio]

Hi all,

I have some doubts with columns in virtual machine tab, i already checked on Help topics but its not enought:

1) Status Condition of the virtual machine. - I have some virtual machines without any status, that means without any color. Anyone know why that's happens ?

2) Guest Mem - % Amount of the guest operating system's memory used. - I think that's swap memory. Anyone have information about that ?

Thanks a lot for your help !

Daniel Biaggio

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Re #1: Status

VMware-Tools needs to be installed to get status.

Re #2: Memory

This is the total amount of used memory by the VM. Not total memory assigned.

Best regards,

Edward

[esiebert7625]

Here's alot of info on memory and Guest Mem %/Host Mem

Here's some good links...

Host Mem and Guest Mem % - http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=620581&#620581

Memory Resource Management in VMWare ESX Server - http://www.stanford.edu/~stinson/cs240/cs240_1/revs/esx.txt

The Role of Memory in ESX Server 3 - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_memory.pdf

Memory resource management in Vmware ESX Server - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/usenix_resource_mgmt.pdf

Also...

http://www.vmware.com/community/message.jspa?messageID=517737

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=62628&tstart=0

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=620581&#620581

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=607837&#607837

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=618634&#618634

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