Hello,
Thank you for posting in the Microsoft newsgroup!
From your post, my understanding on this issue is: you can use less memory
than you expected. If I'm off base, please feel free to let me know.
Thanks everyone for their key in.
It's very hard to know the exact number of how much memory the system will
use.
For example, if you have 3GB memory for VS, you may have to know how much
of them will be used by the VS system then you can assign the left for the
virtual machines.
In addition, hardware like video card will map part of the system memory as
video memory's extension (if you have an integrated video card, it use
system memory as video memory). The BIOS will map system memory as well.
I suggest you refer to motherboard's manual and set a smaller memory map in
CMOS (or disable mapping if you can) and test again. Based on your
hardware, the settings you changed in CMOS may cause a performance loss.
By my experience on Virtual Server, a large memory assignment certainly can
increase the performance of virtual machine. However, a faster processor is
more important (I assign 128MB memory to Windows XP all the time).
Please let me know if you have any other concerns, or need anything else.
Sean Cai, MCSE2000
Microsoft Online Support
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