From the menu on the VMware title bar choose:
Settings/Configuration Editor/Memory and adjust the slide control to
select the amount of memory you want to allocate to Win3.1.
Ken
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> How does VMWare for Linux allocate its RAM for its guest OS?
>
> I have an AMD k6-2 400 hrtz with 128 megs of real RAM.
>
> As you know, I tried to install Win3.1 as a guest OS on Vmware this past
> weekend. Strangely enough, it was a total success, including use of the
> modem, which allowed me to download files directly from the Net.
>
> The only problem was that of REAL RAM.
>
> When I booted up Win3.1 in VMware for Linux, I was told that I had a CPU
> of 400 Mhrtz, 640k of conventional memory and only 15 megs of RAM. Is
> that all that was left over after Linux and KDE? Is that the explanation
> for the low RAM count.
>
> If so, how could I raise the real Ram on my Win3.1 OS on VMware? Could I
> use a different GUI such as xfce? Would that increase the ram left over
> for Win3.1 on VMware? If so, could you please indicate how I would
> switch to Xfce for this purpose?
>
> For the record, my main interest is in being to watch certain Russian
> Internet stations that, unfortunately, have chosen to broadcast on
> Windows Media Player rather than RealPlayer. There is a WMP v. 3 (July,
> 1999) meant especially for Win3.1 that allows for full audio AND video
> streaming provided a) you run it on a minimum Pentium CPU 166 and
> sufficient ram. I was able to access one Russian station from Moscow on
> WMP, I could "hear" it (it was obviously playing sound, I just haven't
> yet succeeded in configuring the sound for Win31 on VMware) and there
> was definite video. The video was "clear" but of poor quality, slow and
> grained. I at first thought that there was no hope. However, I can't
> help but wonder if increasing the RAM would not have produced a sharp
> picture.
>
> Bottom line: VMware requires a minimum of Pentium 266 to run the host
> system and 96 megs of Ram. Windows Media Player 3.0 for Win31 Since my
> AMD CPU is 400 Mhrtz and I have 128 megs of Ram, could I in some way
> allocate enough RAM to make WMP work properly on my VMware for Linux?
>
> My thanks in advance both for myself and for other colleagues who use
> Linux and who might wish to be able to watch the WMP stations on VMware
> for Linux on Win31 rather than bother with Winblows 95/98/2000. Let's
> hope eventually Linux will produce its own streaming client to play
> those WMP asf and asx files. That would be ideal.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Benjamin
>
