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Maximum Memory that can be allocated to Virtual pc vms

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 10/21/2008
From: "JoF" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Hi,

We are using virtual pc vms for software development (Vista as host with
Virtual PC 2007 installed). We would like to maximize allocation of memory
to virtual pc vms but the total memory that we can allocate so far is only
up to 3.5GB. We already tried to upgrade the machine to 8GB using Vista 64
bit but still no luck.

We installed Vista 64bit on 8GB memory machine, it can see total of usable
8GB memory but we can only allocate total of 3.5GB to virtual pc vms.

I know that we can only allocate maximum of 3.7GB PER VM as stated in
technet. But I cannot see any documentation that tells about the total
memory that can be allocated to virtual pc vms. Do you have any idea where
can I get such information?

Or can you suggest how we can maximize allocation of memory to virtual
machines? Say if I have 8gb memory on Vista 64 bit OS, I should be able to
use 6GB total to vms of virtual pc.

Any help that you can give will be highly appreciated.

Regards,
JoF

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Re: Maximum Memory that can be allocated to Virtual pc vms

Sent: 10/20/2008
From: "Steve Jain [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:57:52 +0800, "JoF" <(email address - cut out)> wrote:

It should work. I have several 8GB machines and can run two 2 or 3GB
VMs concurrently.
Are you receiving an error message?
Do you have anything like Nero installed?

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/

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>Hi,
>
>We are using virtual pc vms for software development (Vista as host with
>Virtual PC 2007 installed). We would like to maximize allocation of memory
>to virtual pc vms but the total memory that we can allocate so far is only
>up to 3.5GB. We already tried to upgrade the machine to 8GB using Vista 64
>bit but still no luck.
>
>We installed Vista 64bit on 8GB memory machine, it can see total of usable
>8GB memory but we can only allocate total of 3.5GB to virtual pc vms.
>
>I know that we can only allocate maximum of 3.7GB PER VM as stated in
>technet. But I cannot see any documentation that tells about the total
>memory that can be allocated to virtual pc vms. Do you have any idea where
>can I get such information?
>
>Or can you suggest how we can maximize allocation of memory to virtual
>machines? Say if I have 8gb memory on Vista 64 bit OS, I should be able to
>use 6GB total to vms of virtual pc.
>
>Any help that you can give will be highly appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>JoF

Re: Maximum Memory that can be allocated to Virtual pc vms

Sent: 10/21/2008
From: "C.Joseph Drayton" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

JoF wrote:

Hi JoF,

If the GuestVM is WindowsXP (32b versions), then even if you
could allocate more than 3.4GB, you would run into the
WindowsXP limit of 3.4GB.

Sincerely,
C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T

CSD Computer Services

Web site: http://csdcs.itgo.com/
E-mail: (email address - cut out)

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> Hi,
>
> We are using virtual pc vms for software development (Vista as host with
> Virtual PC 2007 installed). We would like to maximize allocation of memory
> to virtual pc vms but the total memory that we can allocate so far is only
> up to 3.5GB. We already tried to upgrade the machine to 8GB using Vista 64
> bit but still no luck.
>
> We installed Vista 64bit on 8GB memory machine, it can see total of usable
> 8GB memory but we can only allocate total of 3.5GB to virtual pc vms.
>
> I know that we can only allocate maximum of 3.7GB PER VM as stated in
> technet. But I cannot see any documentation that tells about the total
> memory that can be allocated to virtual pc vms. Do you have any idea where
> can I get such information?
>
> Or can you suggest how we can maximize allocation of memory to virtual
> machines? Say if I have 8gb memory on Vista 64 bit OS, I should be able to
> use 6GB total to vms of virtual pc.
>
> Any help that you can give will be highly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> JoF
>

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