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RAM allocation in osx

Posted: 18. Jan 2012, 17:14
by eyeman
Hi All

I am running a Windows 7 VM on a OSX Lion host. What would be a good RAM setting on the Vbox System setting (I have 8Gb of RAM on the Mac. Is there anythhing I need to set on the Mac host to allot RAm for the VM?

Thanks

Re: RAM allocation in osx

Posted: 19. Jan 2012, 19:50
by Sasquatch
Check the OS hardware requirements to have an idea of how much RAM you should give the VM. You're free to give it as much as you want, as long as you don't give it more than the Host has left.