[RESOLVED] Windows 7 XP mode virtual machine

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You might try an experiment here. Start up your XPMode VM and, with no programs running, check the RAM usage in both your host OS and your VM OS. This is to get a baseline reading.

Now start up a couple of RAM intensive programs in the XP VM and recheck the RAM usage in both your host and guest OS's.

I don't know how VirtualPC does it but with VMware, the RAM usage goes up in the host OS rather than the guest OS.

My point is that assigning more RAM to the guest is not necessarily what you need when running RAM intensive programs in the guest.

On my system running VMware Workstation, most of my VM's are assigned only 512 MB while my work VM (Win7 or Vista) is assigned 768MB. The only time I assign more than that is during installation of a new VM, At that time I assign 1024MB, then once installed, I cut it back to 512MB.

Basically, I'd recommend some experimentation 'cause I think 2Gigs to a VM is over doing it.