Does a virtual machine continue to use my ram after shutdown
Posted: 15. Oct 2011, 00:32
I've just started using VB, I discovered someone at work had installed it and thought it worked remarkably well and decided to try it at home. I allocated 1.5 GB of memory for my virtual machine on my MBP 2011 and I just remembered that part of what had impressed me about the Virtual Box at work was how quickly the virtual machine started up, but it now occurs to me that this is probably because it's continuing to use the ram. Is that the case? If so is there a way to tell Virtual Box to completely kill a virtual machine so it doesn't use resources until I next start it up?
Also, my instincts tell me this will be fine but, is it safe to install xp drivers for my graphics card? I think if it's a virtual machine it's unlikely to mess anything up, but then I wonder if the graphics card is software emulated rather than my physical hardware since it has a different name "standard VGA adaptor" and since I don't see how else I could continue to see and interact with mac os at the same time as run the virtual box. Perhaps I'm a bit green on the virtual machine concept. Can anyone tell me what would happen if I tried to do this? I want a proper full screen and the windows box's max resolution is much less than my screen.
Also, my instincts tell me this will be fine but, is it safe to install xp drivers for my graphics card? I think if it's a virtual machine it's unlikely to mess anything up, but then I wonder if the graphics card is software emulated rather than my physical hardware since it has a different name "standard VGA adaptor" and since I don't see how else I could continue to see and interact with mac os at the same time as run the virtual box. Perhaps I'm a bit green on the virtual machine concept. Can anyone tell me what would happen if I tried to do this? I want a proper full screen and the windows box's max resolution is much less than my screen.