Increasing Memory?

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Muhnamana
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Joined: 1. May 2010, 16:52
Primary OS: Mac OS X Leopard
VBox Version: OSE Debian
Guest OSses: Windows XP, Windows 7, Ubuntu

Increasing Memory?

Post by Muhnamana »

So I've setup a guest OS, Win7 with the base memory during the setup. I realized I should probably have more memory, so is it possible to go into the settings and increase the memory? Would this cause any conflicts or crash my guest OS?
tb2571989
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Primary OS: MS Windows 7
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Guest OSses: Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2, Ubuntu 9.10, Ubuntu 10.10

Re: Increasing Memory?

Post by tb2571989 »

Yes, click on the virtual machine, and then click on "settings". In the "settings" box choose the "system" tab and use the slider (or box) to choose the amount of RAM your computer had allocated to it.

This cannot be done while the computer is running, naturally, and I would reccomened not giving more than half of your RAM to virtual machines (i.e. 2GB RAM, 1GB for 1 VM or 512MB for two) but depends on your preference and RAM amount.
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