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memory available to 64bit Fedora guest under 32bit XP host

Posted: 30. Mar 2010, 11:34
by Chris Card
I have successfully installed a 64 bit Fedora 11 guest on a host machine (AMD64) running 32 bit Windows XP .

At the moment the host machine has 2 Gb ram installed and I've allocated 1 Gb to the guest, which all works well.

The host machine can hold a maximum of 4 Gb ram, so I was wondering if it's worth buying an extra 2 Gb for it.

I know that 32 bit Windows XP can't use all of the 4 Gb, but can the guest os use any of the ram that the host os can't use?

Chris