On Friday 21 October 2005 04:22, Mark Hansen wrote: > Thanks. Here are a couple follow-up question then. > > (1) If I start 2 separate VMWare processes, they should each be able to > grab 3GB of memory (more or less) - is that right? > > (2) My Dell box has 2 Xeon processors and I'm running the SMP kernel. > Even without CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G, should the 2 processor "split" access to > the memory, so that I can run 2 processes - one on each processor - that > have access to 3GB (more or less) each? > > -- Mark > > Aurelien Ricard wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 22:46 -0400, Mark Hansen wrote: > >>> I'm running debian on a dell poweredge 1750 and just intalled 6GB of > >>> memory. Its a dual-processor machine and I use it with VMWare to run > >>> multiple virtual machines. > >>> > >>> Problem - I can only "see" 4GB of memory. Here is the output from > >>> "free -m": > >>> > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -m > >>> total used free shared buffers > >>> cached > >>> Mem: 3995 3908 86 0 145 > >>> 2668 > >>> -/+ buffers/cache: 1094 2901 > >>> Swap: 2047 0 2047 > >>> > >>> > >>> What do I need to do in order to make the other 2GB of memory > >>> available? > >> > >> Build your own kernel, setting the appropriate HIGHMEM option. > >> > >> $ grep HIGHMEM /boot/config-2.6.12-1-386 > >> CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y > >> # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set > >> # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set > > > > Ron's right, you need to rebuild your kernel with high memory support > > enabled and everything gonna be OK with you 6GB
Each Vmware guest you setup has a config file where you specify how much memory to allocate to each VM. You also tell each VM what hardware to use, only one OS..guest or host can use a piece of hardware, i.e. a serial port, usb port. I have heard that you can attach a VM session to a cpu but I haven't tried this. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
