It's unclear to me the maximum memory you should allocate for a Windows 7 32-bit guest. Because of overhead and memory holes, I would expect the number to be less than 4GB, perhaps 3.5GB, but in reality it seems to only be 3GB. I can never get taskmgr.exe to report more than 3071mb total physical memory for a Windows 7 32-bit guest.
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Free waves mercury bundle crack. This Vmware KB says that a hardware version 7 guest offers 3072mb supported memory, and 1024mb reserved memory. But the language of the KB is puzzling. It says that this 1024mb 'is not wasted' because 'the VMM does not need to allocate the memory that the guest cannot access'.
Windows 7 will install with a low amount of RAM. However, don’t expect it to run very smoothly with anything less than 1GB. Now that we have mentioned the minimum RAM memory requirements for Microsoft Windows 7, check out the max RAM configurations for Windows 7. The maximum amount of DRAM that the 32-bit version of Windows 7 Home Basic OS can read is 4GB. The 64-bit version of Windows 7 can read up to 192GB DRAM. The maximum limit of DRAM on the 32-bit version of Windows 8 is also 4GB while the 64-bit version can handle up to 512GB of dynamic random-access memory.
This would make sense if Windows 7 32-bit could only support 3072mb of RAM, but in this article Mark Russinovich says that a Windows 32-bit client can use up to 3.75GB of memory depending on the hardware. If you have a gaming system with a large video card, then Windows would give you much less than 3.75GB.
Other posters to these forums suggest that Windows XP guests max out at ~3.6GB.
So, can workstation really effectively use that 1024MB of reserved memory? That seems like too much, unless the VM is running a graphics-intensive game.
Running Alex Ionescu's meminfo with 4096MB allocated to the VM I get:
Usage Active Standby TOTAL
Process Private 36360 ( 145440 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 608004 (2432016 KB) Memory Mapped File 13757 ( 55028 KB) 88468 ( 353872 KB) 102230 ( 408920 KB) Page File Mapped 2212 ( 8848 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 2373 ( 9492 KB) Page Table 1701 ( 6804 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 1709 ( 6836 KB) Paged Pool 18081 ( 72324 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 18204 ( 72816 KB) Non Paged Pool 31909 ( 127636 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 31911 ( 127644 KB) System PTE 3522 ( 14088 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 4429 ( 17716 KB) Session Private 2866 ( 11464 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 2866 ( 11464 KB) Metafile 4576 ( 18304 KB) 8750 ( 35000 KB) 13326 ( 53304 KB) AWE Pages 0 ( 0 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) Driver Lock Pages 241 ( 964 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 241 ( 964 KB) Kernel Stack 810 ( 3240 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 1009 ( 4036 KB) TOTAL 116035 ( 464140 KB) 97218 ( 388872 KB) 786302 (3145208 KB) Max Ram For Windows 7 Professional
Running it with 3076MB allocated to the VM I get nearly identical results:
Usage Active Standby TOTAL
Process Private 38283 ( 153132 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 590056 (2360224 KB) Memory Mapped File 15254 ( 61016 KB) 99135 ( 396540 KB) 114394 ( 457576 KB) Page File Mapped 2170 ( 8680 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 2394 ( 9576 KB) Page Table 1681 ( 6724 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 1681 ( 6724 KB) Paged Pool 22998 ( 91992 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 23670 ( 94680 KB) Non Paged Pool 32492 ( 129968 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 32494 ( 129976 KB) System PTE 3528 ( 14112 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 4430 ( 17720 KB) Session Private 1902 ( 7608 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 1903 ( 7612 KB) Metafile 4225 ( 16900 KB) 9886 ( 39544 KB) 14111 ( 56444 KB) AWE Pages 0 ( 0 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) Driver Lock Pages 241 ( 964 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 241 ( 964 KB) Kernel Stack 729 ( 2916 KB) 0 ( 0 KB) 928 ( 3712 KB) TOTAL 123503 ( 494012 KB) 109021 ( 436084 KB) 786302 (3145208 KB) Maximum Ram For Windows 7 Professional 32 Bit
So, what is the maximum memory that should be allocated for a Windows XP/Vista/7 32-bit guest running on Workstation, Fusion, or vSphere? Is it really 3072mb? Does anything above 3072MB get wasted?
My environment is
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guest OS: Windows 7 ultimate x86, default settings, 1-cpu
hypervisor: VMWare Workstation 7.1.3
host OS: Windows 7 ultimate x64
host: Core i5 with 8GB RAM installed
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