Thanks all, I have maxed out my mac, I have 512 gb storage, 8 gb ram and the I7 processor, so I can quite easily run windows 7. To clarify, It’s recommended to allocate 10 gb for windows and jaws, plus another 10 for other things? I’ll only be using a couple of games, dvd audio extractor, unless there is a version of that for the mac, and sendero gps and maps for the pc. 20 gb should cover that nicely. and I guess 1 gb of ram since the games are only audio ones. Hope everyone has a good day, Andrew On 1 Jan 2014, at 5:51 pm, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote:
> To add a bit more, VMWare is an app like any other. When it is running a > virtual machine it uses up CPU and RAM but once you quit it it takes up only > disk space. The disk space, as previously mentioned, is allocated as you use > it. So I usually give 60GB to my virtual machine knowing that I'll only use a > few of those GB for the initial Windows install plus whatever else I put in. > How many actual GB Windows takes depends on what version. Win7 with the > basics like Jaws and Firefox can easily eat up 10GB. For most folks disk > space is a lot more available than RAM or CPU. I don't know as much about RAM > but CPU is like most apps. If you just have VMWare with Windows sitting there > doing nothing you'll use very little of your Mac's CPU. I usually try to > allocate at least two CPU on Windows newer than XP. I generally give 512MB > RAM to XP, 1024MB to anything newer and 2048MB to any 64-bit Windows. Of > course you can't do that if it will starve your Mac side. If your machine > only has two CPUs and 2GB RAM, don't allocate it all to Windows or things > will bottleneck quickly. > > CB > > On 12/30/13 6:29 AM, Piotr Machacz wrote: >> The requirements for disk space and ram depend non the windows version. XP >> doesn’t need much, you could probably do with even 256MB and a couple gigs >> of disk space, but I’d recommend at least 512 or a gig of ram. Newer windows >> need more, for vista and seven you need a gig of ram and 20 gigs of disk >> space just for the OS. >> As far as resource usage, of course it has to come from somewhere, so they >> won’t be available on the mac. The good thing though is that the settings >> you choose for the VM aren’t immediately allocated. So, if your VM has 2 >> gigs of ram, but the VM is only using half of it, then vmware won’t use >> those 2 gigs as long as it’s not needed. The same holds for the CPU, where >> you can also specify how many cores a VM can use. But again it won’t >> immediately use all of it. For disk space, you can choose if you want it to >> already allocate the space (EG, a 20 gig virtual disk would already be 20 >> gigs), or not (so then that file wouldn’t take up the space if it’s not >> being used). >> >> For games, you can play audio games and anything light. But if you want to >> play main stream games that use a lot of video card resources, you’ll be >> better off setting up a bootcamp partition, so the game can use all the >> resources of your mac. >> On 30 Dec 2013, at 10:24 am, Andrew Head <ath...@bigpond.net.au> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> Just got a question about windows on the mac in virtual machine. Can >>> someone please explain how this works exactly? I know you can assign a >>> certain disc space, ram, etc to use windows. How does this work? what is >>> the least amount of hard drive space needed to run windows and what’s the >>> least amount of ram needed? Because this hard drive space and ram is being >>> used for windows, does this effect things on the mac side, do you now have >>> less hard drive space and ram on the mac side of things because part of the >>> computer is now being used for windows? >>> And what if you were using windows for something requiring a lot of >>> processing power, such as game play? if you chose the least amount of ram >>> and hard drive space, does this then effect how well programs will run >>> under windows and how much storage space you have under windows? >>> I hope this email makes sense, and thanks in advance for answering my >>> questions. >>> Hope everyone has a good day and a safe, blessed and happy new year. >>> Andrew >>> Sent from my 11 inch macbook air >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. 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